The current century public sector and personnel reforms mainly emphasize practices and policies focused on emerging management needs, elected officials’ performance, and business outcomes. The civic workers’ sector focuses on improved effectiveness by addressing political barriers, while the Human Resources (HR) work toward protecting employees’ rights and flexible administration (Nigro & Kellough, 2014). Attracting, recruiting, developing, and maintaining skilled workforce are the main challenges for HR. Most future civil service and human resources reforms and skills training will link to political, economic, and technological evolution.
The need for protection of employees’ rights while maintaining leadership flexibility will attract radical reforms. For instance, the increasing financial challenges may lead to the lowering of retirement benefits and downsizing the number of public workers. Thus, the civic personnel may employ a few but highly skilled employees to solve emerging problems (Nigro & Kellough, 2014). The world is quickly shifting to a digital era, which may necessitate the recruitment of information technology experts. Industries may also opt for employee development activities through training to limit excessive recruitment costs. Thus, public personnel and human resource classes may mainly teach technology-based skills as the essential knowledge to solve emerging problems. Government systems may enact policies advocating for mandatory digital skills in schools and training institutions.
In application to my career, it is apparent that technology skills will be highly valued in the evolving business world. Hence, I will use this knowledge to advance my information technology-related skills as the primary approach to improve my employability. Companies are seeking problem solvers, and telecommunication emerges as the main channel for marketing and other e-commerce activities in the current and future economy. Thus, advancing computer skills is vital and may be emphasized in future HR and public personnel classes.
Reference
Nigro, L., & Kellough, J. (2014). The new public personnel administration (7th ed.). Wadsworth CEngage Learning.