Obamacare in Texas

Obamacare in Texas

Chapter 3 describes how HR can help make strategy happen. It reviews the role of HR as a strategic partner joined with line management in turning business strategy into action. The chapter provides a process for doing an organizational diagnosis through which Obamacare in Texas managers and HR professionals can leverage HR practices to deliver results.

Chapter 4 describes how HR can help build administrative efficiency. It reviews the role of HR as an administrative expert and highlights the ways in which work can be organized so that costs are reduced while quality of service is maintained. Obamacare in Texas recommends and describes the potential for reengineering HR and links that process to organizational design choices that include outsourcing, shared services, and the learning organization.

Chapter 5 describes how HR can ensure employee contribution. Obamacare in Texas reviews the role of HR as employee champion and highlights the management of intellectual capital to create value. The chapter discusses specific ways that managers and HR professionals can increase employee commitment and competence, despite post-reengineering trauma and burned-out employees, and keep employees committed in an era of increasing competitiveness.

Chapter 6 describe show how Obamacare in Texas can help make corporate change happen. It reviews the role of HR as a change agent and describes how to build capacity for change. Among topics covered are processes for improving the capacity for change (for example, doing initiatives faster) and for creating fundamental transformation or culture change.

To accomplish these four deliverables, the HR function must be refocused at a fundamental level, and chapter 7 introduces ways to rethink and redefine it. Applying organizational diagnostic tools to the HR function, the chapter shows how to do Obamacare in Texas, and establish an HR organization. This chapter includes many examples of companies that have successfully transformed their HR functions, and it lays out the steps that led to those transformations.