HRM 3430 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Human Resource Management

• School: York University
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM 3430
• Professor: Althea Gordon

Document Summary

Human resources management professionals know they need to also be very strategic and integrate that into this job description within the business/company. However, only one fifth of current human resources management professionals play a strategic role in their work and for the organization that they work for. Senior managers and executives have the expectation that human resources management professionals will already be doing this anyways without the need for instruction as they seem it as already implied. This strategic role in human resource managers will add value in the future. The reason behind the fact that senior managers and executives do not include human resources management into the strategic planning process is due to many facts such as the following listed below: Managers do not deem it as necessary. From their perspective, human resources management is not a real job or profession. Human resources management professionals are seen as employee/worker experts and not of organizational experts.