Trends in Human Resource Management Practice: a Perspective from Practitioners in Logistics Organization, Selangor, Malaysia. | [Academic Research International • 2017]

Author(s):

1. Dazmin Daud: Faculty of Business and Information Science, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA

Abstract:

Human resource management practitioners from nine logistics organizations in the Klang Valley, Selangor, Malaysia were interviewed in person using a structured interview method. Participants identified global competition in logistics industry, emerging of partnership strategy, demographics of the logistics workforce and high quality of services expected from customers as trends they faced in logistics industry. Important points were highlighted as human resource policy, training and development specifically for logistics human resource management that covered these trends.

Page(s): 9-16

DOI: DOI not available

Published: Journal: Academic Research International, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Year: 2017

Keywords:

Trends , logistics organization , logistics industry , human resource practitioners

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