Management should focus on building a workplace and culture based on job security and employee self-esteem to best suit a low-stress, highly productive environment. By being a servant manager, others take precedence over self. A servant manager wants to build a good working relationship with customers, employees and senior management to create a positive and uplifting business experience for everyone involved. It is the responsibility of managers to ensure the profitability of the company and the owners by producing a product quickly and cheaply. Producing is not a concern reserved only for managers. The human element is the greatest asset to any company and perhaps the greatest overlooked resource a company has at its disposal. The practice of simply filling positions must end. In many modern companies, boards of directors involve HR managers in strategic and managerial decisions: “...the role of the traditional HR manager is diminishing....HR must now enter the business of HR strategies, focus more on the organization's bottom line and leave more administrative tasks to technology or others” (Mondy, 2010). Traditions are rapidly fading as research finds that what traditionally worked in the past is not the best way to do business. HR needs to take a more active role in shaping the business environment beyond the traditional hiring role. The HR door must convey a symbol of strategic management and economic growth through human resource development. Human Resources, in collaboration with management, plans development to acquire the best employees and manage the environment in which they work to ensure positive attitudes and productivity. Symbols are everywhere in the workplace and in some... middle of the paper... .Higgins, George C. "Durable Goods: An Ethics of Alliance for Management and Employees." Review of industrial and labor relations. 53.1 (October 1999): 165.Shani, Rami, Chandler, Dawn, Coget, Jean-Francois, Lau, James, Behavior in Organizations: An Experiential Approach, 9th, San Luis Obispo: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2009. Print . Mondy, R. Wayne, Human Resource Management, 11, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2010. Print.David, Fred R., Strategic Management: Concepts, 12, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2009. Print.Pride, William M , Ferrell, O.C., Marketing, 14, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. Print.Rock, David, “Managing with the Brain in Mind.” Strategy+Business Fall 2009:58-67. Print.Shaw, William H., Business Ethics, 7th, New York: New York, 2011. Print."New Association Promises to Fight Direct Marketing Misdeeds." Ward's Dealer Business. 41.2 (February 1, 2007)