nd planning ways to manage key issues is required. As a senior executive in the health care sector I have experienced the shift of the human resources function from the traditional human resource unit to be an integrated function of all managers roles. However due to a combination of factors the exclusion of human resource management has occurred. Notably human resource management is often barred from strategic organisational involvement by senior management, often through lack of appreciation of the value. Along with the failure of human resource management to ‘insist’ on inclusion. This has often resulted in key shifts in the organisation not proceeding due to a lack of attention to key critical issues surrounding utilisation of the human capital of the organisation. To bring about this change human resource professionals need to explain and establish a new set of competencies to achieve their changing role. ...