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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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