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A 10 page paper discussing changes in the key roles and function of HR departments in recent years, using a large insurance company and a plastics manufacturer as examples. Both companies have realigned much of their HR function to that of strategically planning for future needs based on management's forecasts for the future. Rather than react to management dictates, they now take more active roles in determining how the companies can best use those employees already present, and how best the companies can continue benefiting from the original investment they made in those employees. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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shape the role and practices of the Human Resource (HR) or Personnel function within any organization are standard only to a degree. The specific role and practices within any
HR department will evolve with the needs of the organization; its location and available local and remote labor market; its relevance to the larger organization; and whether the organization is
committed to being an employer of choice. PlastiLine is a plastics manufacturing plant in East Tennessee and has the distinction of being the
largest producer of plastic signs in the US. The region has been growing quickly for the past decade or so, but PlastiLine was faced with a lack of qualified
candidates long before the labor market tightened so dramatically in the mid-1990s. It has long been faced with the necessity of training new employees, making retaining them an issue
of greater importance at that company than it has been at some others. Former Days
Todays most successful organizations increasingly are asking employees to provide more service than just that resulting from performing prescribed duties. Developed nations firms have experienced downsizing, restructuring and reorganizing
for years, and they still find it necessary to increase their operating efficiencies in order to gain or preserve competitive advantage. The business environment continues to change at a
rapid pace, and those organizations with the most dedicated, flexible and creative employees are those most able to keep pace. Dickens Ebenezer Scrooge exemplifies the old school of management
that thankfully has all but died out. Employees were to work long hours for little pay, do precisely what they were told and think only so far as required
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