Managing human capital. HR professionals and the task of facilitating organisational change

Scientific Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Personnel and Organisation, grade: 64, Cardiff Metropolitan University, course: MBA, language: English, abstract: Using a qualitative research approach anchored on secondary data, the objective of this paper is to assess the various roles of HR professionals that are unique to every organisation according to the demands of the organisations that are usually based upon the business objectives of the firm. HR professionals are placed with the task of facilitating the changes that are necessary for achieving organisational change that are vital to the success of the firm. This paper will scrutinize various literature related to HR Roles and provide indisputable facts that reveal the true nature of the functional sphere of the HR professional who often have a misconstrued perception of their true role. This casual research paper will primarily examine multitude secondary data that provide insight into the role of the HR professional coupled with empirical evidence based on observations and surveys conducted by previous researchers over the last three decades on how organisations have relied on HRD as a champion of change that requires them to draw attention to the needs of the organisation and formulate practical and applicable methods towards meeting these changes with the least amount of resistance. The subsequent review of literature that will be presented will start with a review of Collins and the emphasis placed on HR management concepts and approaches that are developed based on organisational structures which are in turn bounded to cultural elements and how these are streamlined with business objectives which further contribute to the complexity of the entire organisational framework. The review of literature will also contain examples of organisations that owe success not only to their products, but also the innovative HR approach that enabled these companies to attract and retain the best of talents within their industry that gave them the competitive advantage over their rivals