The future will belong to companies that can fully explore process centering. Reengineering and other initiatives bound to give new shape to organisations have already transformed the work to be done in companies. Now it is time to transform people that work in them, as to have teams capable of superior performance. In general, the subjects related to human resources are the responsability of the HR function. This is the very part of the company that needs to face the most difficult part of the modernization challenge. It seems, however, that the conventional weapons and accumulated experience of HR people may not be enough to settle the questiono The article suggests that it will be necessary to break up the past, to leave some old concepts and experiences behind and to propose new creative solutions to give companies of the future the human resources they will need.
human resources; challenges; modernization; future; organisations