text: Human Resources (HR) Support
  professional judgment augmented with experience, training, education, intelligence, and intuition.
  Commanders and staffs need to understand and visualize future operations to identify the appropriate required
  support; then start the process of acquiring the resources and capabilities to best support the operation.
  Anticipation is facilitated by automation systems that help clarify the common operational picture (COP) on
  which judgements and decisions are based. Commanders integrate risk management into the operations
  process to identify threats, assess those threats, and emplace controls to mitigate the risk of gaps in support.
  Human resources professionals must accurately anticipate the impact changing tactical situations will have
  on HR systems and processes. They must also clearly understand the commander’s vision and intent to
  anticipate the requirements of providing critical and timely HR support. Rather than merely reacting to
  support requirements, HR professionals must use sound judgement to forecast HR requirements and initiate
  maintenance or accumulation of HR assets necessary to support the operation. This effort requires
  maintaining running estimates that support a COP and project HR requirements.
  RESPONSIVENESS
  1-10. Responsiveness is the ability to react to changing requirements, then responding to meet the needs to
  maintain operational reach, freedom of action, and prolonged endurance. Responsiveness provides the right
  support to the right place at the right time. Responsiveness involves identifying, accumulating, and
  maintaining sufficient resources, capabilities, and information necessary to meet rapidly changing
  requirements. Through responsive sustainment, commanders maintain operational focus and pressure, set the
  tempo of friendly operations to prevent exhaustion, replace ineffective units, and extend operational reach.
  Responsive HR support enables commanders to meet changing requirements on short notice. These quick-
  reaction efforts may temporarily disrupt long-range HR support planning, but they are required for
  operational success. To provide responsive support, HR professionals must understand the missions of
  supported units. An HR COP integrated with the Army Readiness COP and follow-on business intelligence
  tools associated with Army enterprise resource planning systems facilitate responsiveness. That COP enables
  commanders to see all supported forces, anticipate requirements based on situational understanding, and
  provide support when and where needed. Even in the absence of automated reporting, HR professionals must
  maintain awareness of the status and capabilities of units to provide timely and effective HR support.
  Responsiveness means adjusting HR support to meet commanders’ needs. Responsiveness is the ability to
  readily adapt to different or changing HR demands.
  SIMPLICITY
  1-11. Simplicity relates to processes and procedures designed to minimize the complexity of HR support
  operations. Simplicity enables economy of and efficiency in the use of available resources, while ensuring
  effective HR support of forces and Soldiers. Unnecessarily complex HR support processes and procedures
  can lead to confusion. Human resources professionals must understand and clearly communicate elements
  pertaining to HR support (tasks, functions, systems and organizations). Clarity of HR requirements, tasks,
  standardized and interoperable procedures and clearly defined command relationships contribute to
  simplicity.
  ECONOMY
  1-12. Economy is providing HR support in an efficient manner that enables the commander to employ all
  assets to the greatest effect possible. Human resources professionals achieve economy through the efficient
  management, prioritization, and allocation of personnel replacements and HR assets. Economy is further
  achieved by eliminating redundancies (unnecessary HR processes and procedures) and capitalizing on
  collaboration with other staff sections for efficiency and effectiveness of HR support. Disciplined HR support
  by HR leaders assures the greatest possible reliability of HR processes and procedures to commanders.
  SURVIVABILITY
  1-13. Survivability is based on being able to protect HR support functions from destruction or degradation.
  Human resources professionals contribute to ensuring HR support (tasks, functions, systems and
  organizations) are adaptable and can endure in any type of operational environment.