The new vice president of Human Resources (HR) for Becton Dickinson must develop a strategy to reconceptualize the HR function as mandated by the CEO who has introduced formal strategic planning procedures in the organization. The teaching objective is to understand the role of the HR function in a large organization in the context of the development of corporate strategy. May be used with: (9-491-151) Becton Dickinson (A): Corporate Strategy; (9-491-152) Becton Dickinson (B): Global Management; (9-491-155) Becton Dickinson (D): Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling; (9-496-007) Becton Dickinson (E): An Assessment of Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling.