Many companies have moved their operations to places with cheap, relatively poorly educated labor. What is crucial, they say, is the dependability of the workforce and how well it can be managed and trained. General educational level and a small cadre of highly educated creative people are essential for innovation and growth. Ending discrimination
and changing values are probably more important than moving low-income families into the middle class.

The current training gaps that now exist have reached a critical stage. Public sector programs of training are grossly inadequate and government incentives for private sector training do not seem to work. It is quiet clear that much of the training required to mould our young human resources has to be from the private sector. A bold and imaginative
thinking must go into generating such training facilities, capacities and programs in the private sector.

Pakistan’s human resource community is lagging behind in their understanding of globalization requirements and the development of appropriate technologies to deal with them. In an increasingly complex economy, Pakistan with present approach will continue to lose competitive ground to foreign nations unless the country switches to a strategy of
better educated, better trained employees with global orientation and with more productive forms of work organization. Such organizations should be developed that are consumer driven, quality-focused and globally effective.

In this way, organizations will strive to restore a nation’s competitiveness and assist in ensuring its continued prosperity in the new millennium. The time has come for an integrated effort to ensure that business leaders will have the management with crosscultural skills which are necessary to compete on global basis.

Pakistan’s HR community has evolutionary thinking approach. What is needed is a revolutionary approach in convincing management that they can deliver strategic results with a positive attitude and multi-dimensional approach. An approach that shifts emphasis from HR traditional focus as expert administrators, to develop a multi-skilled
and a multi-functional department that adds value to the organization on the whole.