The major responsibilities of human resources management (HRM) are attracting, developing, and maintaining a quality workforce. Research an organization, with which you are familiar, that is in need of a change and present how you will manage the change process by incorporating the three essential duties of HRM.

Choose one subsystem to change address the following questions that pertain to the major human resource management responsibilities and to change management. Strengthen your recommendations by showing how your proposed changes are working in another similar organization that is successful.

1. Provide an overview of the organization you have chosen including three subsystems of the organization, three stakeholders of the organization, and the reason for selecting this organization.

2. What one major organizational subsystem needs to be changed in the organization? Justify your choice. How does it compare to a similar successful organization?

3. How will the subsystem change affect the two other subsystems within the organization that you have identified and how will you realign the total system?

4. Identify and explain how you would ensure that the proposed change will satisfy any three stakeholders of the organization?

5. How should the organization attract, develop, and maintain the workforce required to bring about your proposed change?

Choose at least one of the following in your discussion about attracting a quality workforce to support the change in Questions 2 and 3 above: human resource planning, recruitment, or selection.

Choose at least one of the following in your discussion about developing a quality workforce to support the change in Questions 2 and 3 above: (and this must tie in to 4a too): employee orientation, training and development, or performance appraisal.

Choose at least one of the following in your discussion about maintaining a quality workforce to support the change in Questions 2 and 3 above (and must relate to 4a and 4b): career development, work-life balance, compensation and benefits, employee retention and turnover, or labor-management relations.

I chose a Construction Organisation (X) providing engineering, procurement and construction services for Government in Roads & Bridges. Other than HR, the three subsystems are Strategy, Operations & Finance. We would focus on the subsystem Strategy because this is the penultimate department which frames policies, aligns every activity and transaction as well as plans for future with respect to the vision, mission and values of the organisation.

Presently, the Strategy subsystem is primarily focussed on gaining business opportunities and executing them to augment revenue at the cost of environment and employees. It's prime God is Clients / Customers and revenue. There are other similar organisations which also started at the same node, but gradually adopted the learning curve and other change initiating measures to adapt and develop as per the market dynamism. Gradually, these successful organisations have learnt and adopted the midway between Customer and Employee. Employees, who are the internal stakeholders have been identified to be the prime assets of an organisation to endeavour, persevere and sustain for the existence and development of any organisation.