Such is the scale and complexity of the human resource element that the firm has have the right kind of vision, understanding of staffing issues, organised and co-ordinated programmes relevant to the change objectives of the business. This is where personnel managers as members of a strategic management team can contribute to shaping how the business as a whole interprets and copes with environmental change - where this relates to employees and employee performance. Here the personnel person must be a business person - able to relate employees to the competitive imperatives and financial demands of the business. What are the implications for personnel policy change and service responsiveness. A dynamic, network of mutually dependent organisations.
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Strategic level personnel professionals face a shift in the concept of the organisation. The latter do not need much encouragement now from personnel specialists.