Riachi's strategic human resources circle

Abstract

Internal and external change is happening so rapidly that the operations of organizations are affected significantly. Different organizations use different methods to manage change. It is suggested in this thesis that the human resources department should play a major role in managing change. However, the current structure of the human resources department is not designed to mange change. For this reason, it is hypothesized that the human resources department will have new roles in addition to its traditional roles. These new roles will be known as the Riachi Variables. The Riachi Variables constitute the Riachi Strategic Human Resources Circle. The Riachi Variables include: coping with change, adapting to change, managing uncertainties, and restructuring. With these new roles, the human resources department will become the strategic human resources department because it will be involved in developing strategies for change. The traditional roles will be maintained but it will have to also focus on the Riachi Variables. The roles of the strategic human resources department will be a combination of the traditional roles of human resources and the new roles of coping with change, adapting to change, managing uncertainties and restructuring. The main responsibility of the strategic human resources department will be to build an organization that is able adapt to change. It will have to meet the challenges of internal change through the Riachi Variables of coping and adapting. To meet the external change challenges, the strategic human resources department will have to utilize the Riachi Variable of managing uncertainties. Furthermore, the strategic human resources department will have the new role of restructuring in order to be able to align coping and adaptation strategies as well as controlling uncertainties with the overall functions of the organization. To manage change, organizations will have to create strategic human resources department that focus on Riachi's Strategic Human Resources Circle. The author will introduce the traditional roles of the human resources department and discuss the Riachi Variables of coping with change, adapting to change, managing uncertainties and restructuring.