Human Resource Department of Xerox Corporation

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

(Source: www.xerox.com)