HR departments are being asked more and more to play a key role in creating a high-performance organization. This creates some tensions within HR structures because of the varying roles of HR in any organization. Specifically, these new demands for HR include:

Contributing to a high-performance organization by developing expertise in collaboration, creativity, facilitating work teams, etc. and

Contributing to traditional HR roles that still need to be done, such as benefits and payroll

To best meet the needs of an organization, how do you think these two roles should be divided? Should it be 50-50? More emphasis on high performance? More emphasis on specific HR functions? Explain why you think your suggested combination would work best.