Becoming a Strategic Partner
PARTNER HAS BECOME the term of choice for HR professionals who help accomplish business goals. As discussed in Chapter 2, HR professionals acting as business partners play many roles, one of which is strategic partner, charged with turning strategy into action. Consider the following cases in which HR professionals were asked to create organizations to accomplish specific business strategies.
Case I
In just two years in the mid-1980s, Engcon,* a global engineering construction firm, faced a major downturn, moving from more than $250 million in profit to more than $500 million in losses. This downturn led to the decision ...
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