Assignment #2 – Chapter 2

Please answer these questions to the best of your ability using the information that you gathered from

reading the chapter, along with information from your own work experience.

1. The role of HR’s importance to organizations has changed to a more strategic role? What are some

reasons for this change?

2. Please go to the list of the Fortune 500 companies (http://fortune.com/fortune500/). Choose one

company out of the list and go to their website to find their Vision and the Mission Statement.

a. What company did you choose, and what is its Mission Statement (usually available on corporate

website; please provide reference link)?

b. What are five ways that human resources might play a strategic role in fulfilling the mission

statement of the company that you chose? Please be specific.