Trends in Global HR Practice: Avoiding Disruption
Repeated from Monday at 2:00 p.m.
Relying on both academic research and global HR practice analysis, this session will review the major trends affecting HR in global organizations. It will discuss the increasing “uberization” of global HR and the possible disruption of major HR practices. Finally, you will review the global HR competencies and paradigm shifts that can be used to respond to disruption challenges. This session will:
- List the major trends affecting global HR and link these trends to possible disruption.
- Review a number of (global) HR practices which are being disrupted.
- Formulate some behavioral shifts to respond to HR disruption.
Lisbeth Claus, SHRM-SCP
Lisbeth Claus, Ph.D., SHRM-SCP, is a Professor of Global Human Resources at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon (USA). Prior to joining Willamette University, she held faculty and administrative positions at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and managerial positions at Safeway Inc. and Maritz Inc.
Dr. Claus has published widely in academic and professional journals on subject matters related to international and global HR management issues, and is a frequent key-note speaker at national and international HR conferences. She is considered a leading expert on issues related to employee performance management for multinational companies and organizations.
She frequently delivers multi-day strategic HR seminars in Central and Eastern Europe, Eastern Africa, and Asia for country and regional HR managers. She was the 2003 President of SHRM Global, the international division of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). In 2004, SHRM commissioned her to design the GPHR (Global Professional Human Resources) Certification Preparation Course She is also a Global HR Special Expertise Panel Member at SHRM. To advance the HR profession, she frequently volunteers her professional services for the establishment and development of country HR associations in emerging markets.