Human Resource Department of Xerox Corporation

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Introduction

The rapid globalization and increased reach of organizations to global markets have

intensified the competition among them. The analysis of these competitive factors facilitate

the understanding that the bases on which everything rely are people and their position.

Becker & Gerhart (1996) are of the view that swiftly changing economic environment, which

is characterized by the market factors such as globalization and deregulation of markets,

ever-increasing product-market competition, changing needs of customers and the demands

of the investors and suppliers, have become the norm of most of the organizations. In order to

compete in such a competitive environment, organizations must have to improve the

efficiency can effectiveness of operations by different competitive strategies such as cost

reduction, through differentiation, improving quality, flexibility to the environment, and

speed to the market. In such an environment the role of human resource decisions in creating

and sustaining the effective organizational performance and gaining competitive edge has

become more significant.

From hiring the employees to effectively perform at the workplaces till the active

participation in strategy making of the organization, the job of the human resource

management (Noe, et al., 2010) is to contribute towards the profitability, quality and other

business goals through enhancement and support of business operations.

The purpose of this report is to analyse the importance of human resource department for the

large organizations and to research the significant factors in context of an organization. The

organization selected for this purpose is Xerox. The importance of human resource

department for the effective performance of the organizational activities has been analysed

keeping in view the HR related practices at this organization. With a brief introduction of the

company, the report follows with the important aspects of human resource management for

the effective performance of the organization.

Organization structure of Xerox Corporation

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(Source: www.xerox.com)

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