Managing People - UNDP's current environment
Excerpt from UNDP Strategy for Managing Human Resources.
Fundamental changes are occurring in the world of work and exciting new approaches to human resources management are guiding successful organizations through these changes. How well we act on our vision of human resources for this new world of work will determine how well we as an organization succeed.
The changing financial resources environment, the shift towards the emergence of a multi-funded platform and UNDP's move to provide advisory services calls for greater flexibility and agility in human resources management. The trend is towards a workforce that is project-based, UNDP-administered, multi-funded and employed on a short to medium term basis. The shift towards changing work demands requires that the organization has the ability to scale its human resources capacity up and down and focus on specific areas of expertise. As a result, former categorizations, such as core and non-core functions, core-and non-core staff and programme versus administration become less relevant to our work, careers and constituents.
While UNDP no longer guarantees the 'job for life', the organization strives to ensure personal growth opportunities that allow for employees to maintain marketable skills at any point in time. Job security depends increasingly on the relevance of developed competencies, acquired skills, qualifications, experience and the individual ability to add value to the organizations performance.
It is the responsibility of all of us to remain competent and relevant, and UNDP's responsibility to ensure that career and learning opportunities are available.
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