PW....we have differed on many topics in the past....but you last two posts I fully and completely agree with.
Change is not always good....big is not always better....and when Engineers and Pilots cease running Helicopter Companies....that is not a good thing.
HR should not screen Resumes or Applications....that is the job for the Engineer and Pilot who is responsible for Hiring.....then the HR staff do the Admin work to bring the new employees on line.
Staff advise, counsel, suggest, even beg....but the GM, Chief Pilot, Chief Engineer MAKE the decisions.
Unless and Until the Company removes the Employees from the "Asset" list and returns them to their rightful place....the folks who make the money for the company.....large corporations are doomed to be "just another place to work" as immediately upon the loss of a contract....Large Corporations cut unnecessary expenses....in other words...."assets". Sadly, HR types do not see themselves as "assets"....they see themselves as being absolutely necessary....and thus never cut their own ranks.
An old friend who used to work for Weyerheauser, that small Lumber company that owns half of the American Northwest....once told me that any company which began a Company News Paper and changed the name of Personnel to Human Resources was one to run away from as nothing good was going to come from it.
He was right!