The Canadian auto collision industry relies largely on human labour and activity in order to provide a satisfactory end product. When these bodies of human activity become unstable “without structure” the whole industry starts to crumble from the bottom of the foundation to the top of the penthouse.

This crumbling of an industry’s core business reliance is not isolated to the auto collision industry alone; actually it is well documented as a challenge in other industries facing uncertain direction as well as companies forgoing a defined internal human resource plan.

We only have to analyze as a case study some of the industry’s and companies operating out side of the auto collision industry that have an insufficient human resource structure to realize our concerns to attract and retain workers is not isolated or unique.

Study 1
This article is for the Human Resources Health industry. It describes the human resource challenges that managers around the world report and analyses why solutions often fail to be implemented.

Author: Mary L O'Neil
Credits/Source: Human Resources for Health 2008, 6:10
http://7thspace.com/headlines/285070/human_resource_leadership_the_key_to_improved_results_in_health.html


Study 2
Bad people-managers can ruin an organization
Chennai: While you wonder at why your employees look de-motivated, they are silently eating away your precious human resources. They are a dangerous type of ‘human virus’ known as bad people-managers. “Bad people-managers can ruin an organisation and it starts with bad recruitment and is sustained by bad talent management,” says Mr Bharathan Prahalad, Head – Human Resources, KLA-Tencor Software India Pvt Ltd, Chennai.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/006200806201340.htm


Study 3
Library and Archives Canada Business Plan 2008 – 2011
Addressing LAC’s Human Resource Challenges

The need to build a stronger workplace community, to meet public service-wide expectations and to ensure that LAC continues to have the people with the skills and experience to meet our mandate has been an important focus of management attention.
http://collectionscanada.ca/about-us/012-308.01-e.html


The question that lingers in my mind is, witnessing the acknowledgement and implementation for a strategic human resource plan from a wide assortment of other industries, why has the auto collision industry failed to act on its HR studies (Prep for the Future) http://www.aiacanada.com/downloads/Prep.pdf they conducted in the year 2000?