ADOPTING 21ST CENTURY HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

Adopting 21st Century Human Capital Management

Adopting 21st Century Human Capital Management

This chapter has endeavored to provide the grounding needed to understand and undertake the leadership challenges facing organizations in the 21st century. The first major organizational challenges for the foreseeable future in this century are globalization of organizational membership.

The forces of globalization combined with the growth and expansions of new technologies suggest that the second most significant organizational need is the capacity to undertake change. The effective leadership of change requires leaders who are aware of their own characteristics, are conscious of how followers may perceive ...