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V ► •' m rERROCHl ;ics and a ist i ourslaiot ndia’s d« sman assas past 15 yean ni/atiom ic Centrall uiira-rigtil« lia’s assasic Red Privada was circulaii newspapti The coluE S. policies. 7 crgv proj« iseof urgo me, Watlt <1 States p OPEC co# and mod cnint ofeaf te U.S.gol iced recofl -ger said. ill bedok by today’s I udents. i old utake or th e i light pe’s njoy i-d- 5hes w e aaU T Thursday, June 7, 1984/The Battalion/Page 9 SHOE by Jeff MacNelly CQ9K AT THAT HEAPUNE IN m NMIONALglGOLEI?!! "15 WePPIN&lN WINGS f»R UZANPOSPARWEiNgEBSEp? A&M studying corporations Personnel staffs moving up University News Service Corporate personnel departments are moving up from the ground floor when it comes to making firms more effective, say two Texas A&M University management professors. “They’re taking on more impor tant roles in firms that recognize that effective human resource decisions improve chances of survival in tough economic times,” said Dr. Gerald Ferris. Ferris and Dr. Deborah Schellen- berg, a colleague at Texas A&M’s College of Business Administration, have conducted a study on person nel practices in firms operating in in dustries which have experienced hard times in the past few years. The study, funded by the Ameri can Society for Personnel Adminis trators, examines human resource practices in three high performance firms and three low performance firms in the oil, retailing and airline industries. “The poor performers seemed to cut personnel functions more se verely when the firm’s profits drop ped,” said Ferris, “and while the good performers did cut some of their personnel activities, they still practiced sound human resource management to make the best use of this valuable asset.” Ferris pointed out when firms ex perience economic decline, person nel departments are among the first to be reduced. But corporations are learning that may be a short-term so lution which causes greater prob lems in the long run, he said. “Fine tuning personnel practices, such as designing a better reward system, rather than eliminating pro grams uses human resources more effectively and can lead to higher or ganizational performance,” he con tinued. “Corporations are beginning to realize the importance of person nel departments and are broadening their responsibilities. They are asking personnel for more input in long-term planning, which is a rela tively new phenomenon.” Many personnel departments are analyzing and planning more and taking a hard look at the implica tions of changes in their policies, he added. “Personnel departments will still fill vacant positions and maintain their traditional functions, but they will also work more with the firm’s top management in planning for things such as the kinds of people the firm might need in the next three to four years,” said Schellen- berg. “Human resource depart ments are going to be more con cerned with how their policies support the strategy of the organiza tion.” Firms will be taking a closer look at the costs and benefits when imple menting compensation policies or early retirement plans, said Schel- lenberg. They also might implement more focused performance apprais als to more carefully identify the poor performers if the firm has to cut back on labor, she said. “Long-term human resource management strategies help firms anticipate and plan for the future. If their industry suffers a decline in growth, then the firms who make the best use of their human re sources should not be injured as badly,” Schellenberg said. Three convicted of kidnapping, burying man alive in Galveston United Press International GALVESTON — A jury Wednes day convicted two men and a woman for kidnapping a Galveston County man in 1982 and burying him alive for five days until his family paid a $75,000 ransom. Mark William Oler, 24, a former tree service employee; Deborah Wood Williams, 31, a bartender; and Timothy Michael Connelly, 21, all of Conroe, face possible life prison terms as punishment for their roles in the Sept. 21, 1982 kidnapping-ex tortion of Michael Baucom, 23, of Santa Fe, Texas. Baucom was kidnapped from his president of his father’s La Marque home in Galveston county and taken engineering firm, as a drug dealer to an oil field near Conroe where he still under investigation by the Gal- was buried in a wooden box in a veston County Sheriffs Department, shallow grave for five days until his family paid a $75,000 ransom. Defense attorneys claimed Bau- Ronald Floyd White, 39, a former com was a willing participant in the employee of Baucom’s father, pre- extortion scheme because he never viously was convicted of master- tried to escape from the shallow minding the kidnapping-extortion grave, covered by dirt and used tires, and sentenced to life in prison. Baucom was buried in a plywood Defense attorneys had maintained box with a plastic pipe as an air vent, that the victim helped mastermind Baucome was rescued from the the kidnapping plot. Defense law- grave before the defendants re- yers portrayed Baucom, the vice ceived the ransom money. 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