Managing change...
The EAPM (European Association for Personnel Management) recently questioned managers from 27 European countries about what they felt would be the major HR issues between 2010 and 2015. Five lead items topped the list: skills in attracting, managing and retaining high potential employees in a now world-scale job market; managing the effects of an ageing workforce; developing a finer balance between private and professional life; delivering tools and methodologies to managers to optimize their handling of change and cultural transformations; and investing in training and the development of skills to cope with an increasingly complex and faster-moving global economy.
We firmly believe that only a company with efficient and effective management can claim to successfully meet these challenges. We know, and this is something we experience every day while working with you, that a company must be able to:
Lean on management to successfully steer these policies. Work organization characterized by a high degree of decentralization and mobility gives even greater importance to the link between employee and immediate superior. The former tends to be more demanding of his manager, who needs to be given all the right management resources and tools;
Roll out these policies in an international environment. The question now is to take the lines and leads defined centrally and implement them everywhere in the same even, uniform and fair way. Every employee must be treated alike, regardless of his or her place of deployment;
Combine the implementation of major change projects with the ability to act as quickly and as closely to each individual as possible.
When you request our assistance on questions of management, these are the three objectives we help you to achieve. Now that complexity, change and uncertainty are the new game rules, they are the three playing fields - close to people and to their potential - on which the managerial challenges of the future will be taken on and won.
Thierry Lemasle
Deputy General Manager
BPI
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