The Role of Human Resources Sergeant in the Profession of Arms

 

Introduction

In the Arms profession Human Resource Sergeants play an important role, they stand in between the commanders and soldiers. Commanders depend on the help offered by Human Resource Sergeants since they are the ones responsible for providing them with unit reports in a daily basis. Human Resource sergeants’ tent to have the most important and versatile role and must be adaptive. They can be said to be the driving force of the arms profession.  They are required to perform their duties in a manner that is effective and efficient. The primary objective of Human Resource sergeants is to earn themselves the respect and trust of their fellow service members.

            As stated earlier Human Resource Sergeants play an important role in the Arms profession. They are responsible for locating and ensuring that vital information gets to leaders in the service within the required duration of time. They are also responsible for ensuring that reports reach the leaders and commanders, these reports are mostly about the strengths of the profession, casualties of the profession, readiness of the service members, reports concerning deployment and redeployment of servicemen. Components of these profession include; confidence, leadership and duty. They are responsible for supporting and maximizing operational effectiveness in all the units in the army with the goal of supporting the army adequately (General Dempsey, 2010).

The culture of the army is never constant. It is always changing due to factors such as technology and war and this is the main reason that Human Resource Sergeants are required to be adaptive. The role they play when they are deployed are different from the role of those in a garrison environment.  The Human Resource sergeants should ensure that they don not break the trust that commanders in the service have placed in them since without this trust they cannot carry out their role effectively. The bond they make with the commanders in the service is built on ethical and exemplary way that they deploy their duties (General Dempsey, 2010). The balancing role of those who are leaders in the arm profession is heavy reliant on Human Resource Sergeants incase the units and the Human Resource Sergeant fail to be on the same page concerning certain issues the army lacks the capabilities to employ personnel in the various areas that they want (General Dempsey, 2010).  They heavily impact the strengths and readiness of the army.

The Human Resource Sergeant are the ones who use management tools that are at their disposal such as the Unit Status Report (USR) to illustrate the gains and losses, it is their job to ensure that such reports are timely and accurate. These reports are very important in the army since they help keep the numbers of the army balanced and also help them anticipate future movements. When these Human Resources Sergeants fail to forecast any upcoming change, they risk putting the mission of units in jeopardy (General Dempsey, 2010).  

Conclusion

Human Resource Sergeants are very important in the arms profession.  Many missions would be in jeopardy without the information provided by these people. The information they provide acts as a glue that holds the army together and makes it function as a whole. They have to be very adaptive due to the changes taking place in the arms profession. They have to display the highest degree of trust in order to ensure they relate well with the commanders in the army.  They are the ones charged with the most vital information in the army and they are among the key players in the army.

 

References

General Dempsey E. M, (2010). “An Army White Paper, “The Profession of Arms”. Retrieved             from;http://www.milsci.ucsb.edu/sites/secure.lsit.ucsb.edu.mili.d7/files/sitefiles/resources /The%20Profession%20of%20Arms.pdf