Human Resource Management in the Presence of Demographic Changes

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Potential Impact of Changing Demography on HR Planning and Job Design................................1
Current Changes in Demography................................................................................................1
Impact of Changes on HRM........................................................................................................2
Recommendations to Address Identified Impacts...........................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
The scope of the report is to guide the reader with the information about the potential impact of
changing environment on the HR planning and job design of the company Woolworths. The
companies nowadays are facing a hard time in analysing the expectation of the people from the
company and what measures they should implement to attract them. Further, changing
demographics is creating need for the human resource manager of the company to change the
HR planning strategy and job design in such a way that the prospective person gets attracted
towards the organization and becomes a part of Woolworths as well. Woolworths is an
Australian retail supermarket organization that is involved in serving supermarket services to
whole of Australia. The company holds a major share of the Australian supermarket industry so
it can be said that they would require efficient and qualitative human resource to manage their
functions in the business environment (Woolworths 2019). Further, more details about the
factors and its impact of job design and HR planning are discussed below:
Potential Impact of Changing Demography on HR Planning
and Job Design
Current Changes in Demography
Ageing Population: The population is progressively aging nowadays that is increasing the count
of elder people in the community as compared to millennial present in the environment.
Analysing the ratio, it should be noted that the society includes more aging people over the
millennial people in the environment. However, a business requires both types of people to
function properly and increase its sales as well. The company finds the people having diverse
generation gap in the environment, whereas earlier there used to be only one segment or group of
people looking for a job. The HR manager of the company Woolworths should consider this
demographic change, as they need to attract all types of people to keep the business growing
(Analoui, 2017).
Surge in Female Employment: The changing environment has created a need for the women to
come forward and work with men in the society. However, initially women were found as the