Careerism: Under Consideration

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If you observed carefully and pondered upon it, we can translate the negotiation and eventual partnership between the Power Rangers and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in a strategic HR sense. It is already common knowledge that the objective of the Power Rangers and the TMNT is to defeat evil wherever it is, whenever needed. And in that fight scene, we saw that the Rangers were not able to defeat their foe by themselves, they clearly needed help and, they got it in the form of talking and kicking reptiles.

Now, if we imagine and interpret everything in a strategic HR negotiation sense, we can suppose that the Power Rangers is an upstart organization (let’s name this organization as Organization A) trying to be competitive in the mobile phone industry with a larger, older, and more experienced organization.

Let’s say that the organizational objective is to create innovative and competitive products. How will they go about this, you might ask? By creating value in the individual outputs and various functions of organization such as operations, marketing, etc. wherein which we can create competitive advantage through their synergy with regard to the value chain. But let’s shift our focus to creating value through strategic Human Resource Management where we are primarily concerned. However strategic HRM does not appear out of the blue, it is created through negotiations with strategic aims.

Now, enumerated below are traditional and strategic activities, in contrast, that the HRD might do in order to support the organizational goals, in correspondent transmogrification (nosebleed) with the actions of the Power Rangers and TMNT. Also, suppose that the activities below came from the collaborative outcome of the negotiation process between Organization A and its internal and external partners/contacts.

	Traditional HR	Strategic HR
Focus	Employee Relations	Partnership with internal & external customers
	Ø In the Rangers’ sense: They’re just a group of kids fighting the bad guys, that’s it. How heroic. Ø In an HR sense: The Human Resource Department is just maintaining a workable relationship with their employees.	Ø In the Rangers’ & TMNT sense: They negotiated with one another and created a relationship through an ideological strategy with regard to their collective vision - puksain ang kasamaan! Ø In an HR sense: Maintaining a harmonious and synergistic relationship with the employees can be interpreted as higher job satisfaction, higher organizational commitment, higher productivity. With these in consideration, the partnership with the employees can eventually lead to customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Initiatives	Reactive	Proactive
	Ø In the Rangers’: The Rangers would only plan for the resolution of the current situation. They were in deep sh** this time. Ø In an HR sense: The traditional HR would try to solve the current predicament that the organization is in by getting all the people necessary to create a competitive product.	Ø In the Rangers’ & TMNT sense: They already planned ahead by teaming up. With their team, they can fight stronger enemies as compared to their previous foes. Planning and organizing, 2 out of 4! Not bad! Ø In an HR sense: Not only should the HRD hire the people necessary to create a competitive product, they should also take into consideration the alignment of the primary and support activities that would create an impact in their respective areas and their overall contribution to the attainment of the organizational goals through a greater marginal value creation.
Key Investments	Capital & Products	People
	Ø In the Rangers’: They depended too much on their skills. They didn’t know that they needed some kung fu sh** to (roundhouse)kick some serious a**. Ø In an HR sense: Perform basic functions of HR.	Ø In the Rangers’ & TMNT sense: Utilized the knowledge, skills and abilities (the way of the ninja) of the Turtles which complemented the Rangers’ own. Ø In an HR sense: Recruited and developed people with the potential to create more value in their respective functions and areas thus creating an impact.
Job Design	Specialization	Teams & Flexibility
	Ø In the Rangers: The rangers are only used to battle normal foes, but when they faced this one, they were caught off guard (naduwag) due to the foe’s prowess. Ø In an HR sense: Hire people for the current job without considering their potentials to hone their abilities to better help the organization.	Ø In the Rangers & TMNT sense: With the Rangers and Turtles teamed up, their synergistic output was greater which helped them vanquish the monster! Ø In an HR sense: The HRD can align recruitment, training and development, compensation, performance management, and employee relations to look for the right people for the job. T&D and PM can set certain criterion for potential and performance. Recruitment can source and hire the persons while compensation and ER helps retain the employees and attend to their needs.