Case Study: the Human Resources Strategy Implemented by Johnson & Johnson

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This particular case is centered around the Human Resources strategy that was implemented by Johnson & Johnson in 1997. This strategy includes many key aspects of corporate culture, leadership and global strategy integrated into one single global human resources program. This program allowed Johnson & Johnson to diversify their current employees, raise the standards for future employees, redefine the standards of leadership within J&J and improve global management overall. The first portion of this human resources plan was to redefine the standards of leadership within J&J. This was accomplished by creating a new credo set of company values with over 60 specific behaviors that will dictate how well the company will perform. This new set of credo values serves as the foundation for the new HR plan to build on. There are six essential core credo values that were defined within the new plan, one of which is to behave with honesty and integrity. Integrity is the most important core value within the leadership that is important to employees according to the survey mentioned in lecture...

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