Human Resources Consulting for General Motors

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Human Resources Consulting for General Motors

Turning Point HR Consulting

Wall Street

New York, NY.

Cindy Brinkley

Head of Global Human Resources

General Motors

Detroit, MI.

Subject: The need for a new HRM approach at GM

Dear Ms.,

I am the Chief HR Consultant at Turning Point, HR Consulting firm located in New York City. I have been engaged with providing state-of-the-art HR consultancy and solutions to numerous businesses located in the United States. Recently, we have provided HR Reviews and HRIS software implementations to giant businesses like Ford Motor, 3M, General Electric and others.

We provide comprehensive on-demand HR solutions and consulting advice. We also evaluate the complete HR functions of organizations to identify the problems and challenges inherent in their human resources. In addition, we also provide custom implementations of various human resources information systems (HRIS) while we also review your complete HRIS to identify improvements and change management of human resources technology.

In the past, we introduced new compensation and employee benefits system at General Electric. We have also done successful human resources change management at 3M Corporation. Additionally, we also overhauled the entire human resources department of Ford Motor Company.

We have found that GM is not going fine as far as human resources are concerned. Recently, GM has emerged from its bankruptcy and restructuring which was aided by the federal bailout of GM. The federal government had put too many covenants and restrictions on GM; however, now GM is mostly free of all those restrictions. Still, GM has had major workforce overhaul. Currently, GM has more than 205, 000 employees worldwide. This sheer great workforce is being managed by you alone. We appreciate this great responsibility of human resources that you have.

We have further found that GM has stopped the pension scheme for those who are on duty and in service right now for GM. This means that those employees who were receiving their pensions will continue to do so. However, the current employees who are working for GM and have not retired as yet will not get the benefit of the pension or the superannuation that they were entitled to before. Additionally, any future hires will also not be provided with any pension benefits. This represents the comprehensive restructuring efforts going on at GM (MSNBC, 2012).

However, we realize that any such drastic measure cannot be implemented in isolation. If GM has implemented this sea change in the human resources of the company, then it must overhaul the entire human resources at the organization to deal with the high emotions that the employees attribute to the pension system. Good compensation and benefits policies take care of these changes. You must be aware that the employee pension scheme makes a considerable amount of the human resources expenditure of the company. Accordingly, the employees associate the contribution to their pension as a considerable deduction and which they also cherished as an integral part of their total compensation. Consequently, the entire employee compensation needs to be revised to provide the white-collar ...