People are one of the keys to success in risk management. Employees are creative and an important source of new ideas. Appreciated people will respond with dedication and loyalty. The management team, not employees or the rest of the family, determines the paradigms that shape the human resource environment. Managers choose their paradigms.
Managers can change their paradigms.
In turn, managers' human resource planning, hiring, training, communication and discipline practices mold the work force. The causation is from management to labor not labor to management. Managers incorporate their paradigms into the firm's culture. Each firm's culture reflects its uniqueness, i.e., its values, beliefs, jargon, norms and traditions. By changing its paradigms, the management team can change the firm's culture and the environment within which its people are functioning.