Which areas of HR do you think will be most affected by current and future trends discussed in this course? What are some of the changes that will need to be made in order to keep up with these trends? The areas of human resources that I think will be most affected by current and future trends are training and outsourcing. Organizations today are outsourcing strategic functions, not just peripheral tasks. Rather than micromanaging their outsourced functions, organizations are relinquishing control of many of their core operations to trustworthy third-party partners. Global organizations are now even starting to view outsourcing as a source of innovative ideas, as a catalyst for change, and as a way to transform business and industry dynamics (Youssef, 2012). With companies...