The book entitled, "Personnel Management of the 21st Century" highlights some of the most crucial roles and responsibilities that an HRM Professional should carry out to become an effective strategic partner to business owners and decision-makers, to wit:
1. Initiates and facilitates the strategic process of crafting the organization's mission-vision and values;
2. Utilizes a planning process to arrive at clear performance indicators and targets aligned with business strategies;
3. Continuously acquires a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of the business and its dynamics and environment, as well as identifies the implications of human resource actions as a result of these;
4. Exercises foresight, courage, and competence for longer-term organizational change;
5. Translates business strategies into priorities and programs for human resources (employees), thereby aligning them;
6. Communicates the business plan impact on human resources practices (HRM), and gets others to support the plan and activities;
7. Leads the marketing and communication of human resource (HRM) philosophy, principles, and associated platforms with business partners and the rest of the human resources community;
8. Provides ongoing feedback to and consultation with the business partner and the rest of the human resources community to keep human resources on track with effective programs and services.
What do these strategic roles and responsibilities imply? These things could only mean that HRM professionals should look beyond the comfort of their routines and customary roles and align their efforts and programs with the organization's business processes and strategies. In the first place, human resources (employees) are the prime movers of these business processes and strategies.
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