ARTICLE REVIEW

Article Review



Article Review

IntroductionThe paper discusses the article named “The AG Corps Force Development Update” written by Mr. David Galassie. It discusses the U.S. army transformation in coordination of a comprehensive HR strategy. The change has been successful in making the army sustainable to today's military requirements.

SynopsisThe article discusses the restructuring initiatives and challenges of the human resource and personnel transformation in the army of United States of America. This transformation will change the force into a more flexible and versatile unit, while coping with the challenges of the force management. The HR community is undergoing a significant human resource transformation. The organizations including the PERSCOM, Personnel service Battalions and Personnel detachments are transformed into new human resource support centre. The purpose is to ensure effective recruitment, emergency, and personnel management. The current S1 section is formed into a single HR management body, where trained and resource professionalized brigades will provide support to the commanders and soldiers. The human resource redesign favors the modular army where the commanders will be able to execute the personnel services while improving support for the casualty operations. The major changes in the workload are seen from linear processing to the diversified operations across the combat forces. The focus on the core processes improves the personnel readiness. The individual responsibility increases, bringing a significant change in the work operations where the actions shift directly from command or HR specialist to the action agency. In more general terms, this practice is known as bottom up approach.Despite these positive changes, several shortfalls were identified, and remedies were put into place. For instance, the cohesive work force system needs an improved connectivity such as bandwidth and satellite communication. Secondly, the management expertise on the leadership level may become complex because due to the restructuring, the current leadership will require generalization instead of technical specialization. The article details out the successful completing of the restructuring, eliminating the non essential units and head quarters (Galassie, 2006).Writer's Conclusion

The writer Mr. David Galassie describes the restructuring of the United States army since the beginning of World War II. The article highlights the army's transformation from 15000 man divisions, to less than 4000 man combat teams. The restructuring calls for organized, equipped, trained, and manned units. These versatile units will be capable of guiding the army through the global war on terror.The main focus of the article is how the human resource function of the army was transformed as part of the restructuring, supporting the Army chief staff's ...