Jim Daniels has heard the recommendations presented to him by the HR Strategy I consulting team and is prepared to move ahead with several of their recommendations. In order to do so, however, he will need some additional assistance. Paradoxically, he doesn’t have enough HR staff to deal with the issues raised by the firm’s excess supply of engineers. He has concluded that for the next four months he needs about 70 hours per week of additional assistance from people with expertise in HR. In addition, Jim realizes that he needs to improve DSI’s workforce planning and recruiting activities for the future. His goal is to ensure that the HR staff support DSI’s business objectives in the future. Currently, no one in HR has responsibility for forecasting longer term employment levels or aligning recruiting practices with trends in DSI’s external environment. Jim also realizes that DSI needs to be more systematic in its approach to managing human resources. Currently, HR specialists are each responsible for their own areas of practice (e.g., recruiting, training, compensation, etc.), so there is little consideration of how recruiting activities are related to the other HR activities. Jim is not sure whether he needs more HR staff in order to ensure the HR group at DSI functions more as an integrated team that works as a strategic partner to line managers. Jim decides to hire consultants to help him out. He plans to hire someone to work with DSI for six months on a project basis.