Below are some predicted trends in labor and employment envi

Below are some predicted trends in labor and employment environment. Read each trend and list some ideas on the impact of each trend on major Human Resource Functions discussed in Chapter 1.

Specifically, pick one trend and identify two ways that some Human Resource functions will change as a result of that trend. Please include a discussion of why you think that change will take place.

Trends

Increasing government regulation of healthcare

Aging of the workforce

Increasing diversity of the workforce

Multigenerational workforce (babyboomers, generation X, Millenials

Increasing use of social networks

Increasing number of foreign-born employees

Increasing government regulation of healthcare

Global warming and growing environmental awareness

Solution

Trends choosen : Increasing diversity of the work force

Changes in Human resource function as a result of this trend are as follows: