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Strategic Port Human Resource Talent Acquisition and Training: Challenges and Opportunities

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Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership (AHFE 2017)

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Strategic human resource management provides a robust approach to building a foundation for strategic advantage by creating an effective organizational port structure and design, proposition, systems thinking, culture, workforce value, and an appropriate communication strategy. Effective human resource asset management brings the skill, talent, and productivity to the port organizations. The looming challenges and opportunities facing the next generation of public port and private marine terminal management professionals are unprecedented. The main contribution of this study is investigating a talent acquisition challenges and required professional training to provide a guidance for aligning strategic human resource asset management with the strategic and long-term goals of the port operation and management. While the need for professional training through a higher education degree program focused on the needs of the industry has never been so acute, the port managers can best leverage their human capital by focusing on the potential opportunity and solutions.

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    Mahdi Safa, Kelly Weeks, Rolf Stromberg & Abdullah Al Azam

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Safa, M., Weeks, K., Stromberg, R., Azam, A.A. (2018). Strategic Port Human Resource Talent Acquisition and Training: Challenges and Opportunities. In: Kantola, J., Barath, T., Nazir, S. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 594. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60372-8_20

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