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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGERS
Who are today's human resource managers? Given the rapid and dynamic changes that have characterized this field, it should come as no surprise that human resource managers represent a diverse set of professionals with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and career objectives. A human resource executive to day needs to understand different specialized areas, such as the legal environment, the process of change management, labor relations, and so forth, In addition, con temporary human resource executives must also possess general management skills and abilities reflecting conceptual, diagnostic, and analytical skills. It is important that they fully understand the role and importance of the human resource function for their organization. thus, both a solid educational background and a foundation of experience are necessary prerequisites for success.
Consistent with these changes it is often more useful to conceptualize human resources as a center of expertise within the organization. That is, everyone in the organization should recognize human resource managers as the firm's most critical source of information about employment practices, employee behavior, labor relations, and the effective management of all aspects of people at work, This view of human resource management is illustrated in Figure 1.5, which builds upon the sytems view of human resource management presented earlier in Figure 1.2
Professionalism and Human Resource Management
Accompanying the shifts and changes in human resource functions and importance is a greater emphasis on professionalism, reflected by a clear and recognized knowledge base and a generally understood way of doing Human re- source managers are no longer regarded as corporate citizens, And