Read and respond to the following:

Describe the three new roles of the human resources professional.

Strategic Partner – In this role the human resource professional must have knowledge of finance and accounting to support the business objectives in; hiring, pay, recognition, career development and performance systems and are held accountable for cost savings and measures of all HR processes that contribute to the success of the business.

Employee Advocate – In this role the human resource manager must have knowledge about people and the work environment to build methods that provide goals for employees to contribute in the success of the business through development opportunities, employee assistance programs, and profit-sharing, handling employee problems.

Change Champion – In this role the human resource professional must have knowledge to execute change and strategically work with employee’s that are resistant to change, monitor employee satisfaction and create a culture that promotes organizational mission, vision, values, goals and action plans and to develop measure for the success of the business initiatives.

Discuss your perception of the extent to which human resources plays these roles in your organization.

Within my organization the role all three of the roles discussed in the article; some position descriptions from each role would fall under the responsibility of our VP or Director, Human Resource Manager, Human Resource Business Partner. We also have Training Specialist in HR that provides training to our field support personnel. At the corporate level there would be another group of HR professionals that would handle benefits and payroll and Talent Acquisition Specialists that would be responsible for hiring and recruitment of new talent within the organization. Although the role of a human resource professional has changed greatly over the years from secretarial duties, the HR department also has Administrative Assistants in roles to support with secretarial duties, such as paperwork, scheduling meetings, assisting with event planning and other secretarial duties as needed.