Growing Respect and Need in Personnel Area
The relationship of employees to corporate productivity has become of increasing concern to American executives in recent years. Books like Re-Inventing the Corporation and In Search of Excellence provide illustrations of the bottom line benefits accruing to those companies that provide satisfying, challenging and flexible careers for their staff members.</br></br>Flex-time, job sharing and telecommuting are just three of the new work options under exploration. Intrapreneurship and employee owned companies are two other approaches being tested with success. All are focused on maximizing America's human resources.</br></br>Accompanying this growing interest in "people and productivity" has been a growing respect and demand for those who design and manage the human resource function. Pre- implement and coordinate key human resource procedures. Were seeing this particularly in the high tech arena. We re also anticipating this type of need in other growth areas including hospitality, financial services and retail."</br></br>The relocation of many industries to the Southwest, West, and South for lower labor and utility costs and tax incentives is another reason Pilenzo offers as fueling the demand for human resource professionals. New plant and office facilities always require additional personnel staff to recruit and train new employees to implement and manage new human resource systems.</br></br>Pilenzo says certain functional specialties within the general human resource field are expected to have even greater potential in coming years. With the percentage of unionized personnel declining, companies