Thirty percent of employees are engaged at work, which leaves the vast majority of employees disengaged in the workplace (Grant, 2013, para. 2). There are many issues affecting organizations today; consider employee workloads, employee turnover, open communication, employee retention, flexible work schedules, contingent workforce, talent management, and work-life balance. With all of these important issues to consider, how will organizations keep up with the ever-changing landscape?

Initial Post: As an HR manager at a Fortune 500 company, imagine that you have assessed the needs of your company and have selected two of the issues above as being the most in need of addressing. In your post, discuss

• Which two issues you chose and three findings revealed by your assessment (since you have performed no actual assessment, select three likely findings from your readings, lecture, and experience) as justification for selecting the two issues.
• How the two issues impact at least two of the functional areas of HRM that you have learned about (training development, recruiting and selection, performance and evaluation, compensation and benefits, etc.).