HRM 3430 Chapter 3: The Board of Directors and Senior Executives

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

Document Summary

The board of directors and senior executives are in charge of some of the most important and significant parts of the organization or business. For example: mission, organizational strategy, goals/objectives and vision. The board of directors and senior executives are also heavily involved in human resources management policies, practices as well as programs. They are involved in elements/factors that influence organizational strategy. The board of directors and senior executives participate in implications that are within human resources management. These parts in the organizational strategy include, outsourcing, acquisitions, restructuring as well as mergers and globalization. Also they are interested in successful management as well as the progression, development and advancement of leadership. The board of directors and senior executives also need to ensure that human resources management problems, issues, challenges and difficulties are handled in a professional, formal, respectable, and timely manner.