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The Ministry Of Foreign Affairs

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The purpose of this essay is to describe the challenges that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Indonesia has in the changing conditions, externally and internally, in the context of strategic human resources management. This essay will take on the case of Batch 35 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which has the highest turnover rate compared to other batches before. The first part will describe the importance of human resources in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The second part will describe current condition of human resources in the Ministry and the case of Batch 35 where 7 out of 148 employees have resigned due to internal and external factors. The third part will ask how the Ministry should evaluate the reasons to keep the employee turnover rate low and figure out the better strategy to respond to the challenges in managing its human resources. The Importance of Human Capital in Diplomacy Diplomacy is a field where people cannot be replaced by machines like other fields, such as banking, immigration services, or goods production. It is where people are the essential factor. Diplomacy has the main purpose of securing foreign policies objectives without using force, propaganda, or law and consists of communication between officials (Berridge, 2005, p.1). Lynda Gratton supports the view that people is the very factor that determines a company’s success. She argues that today only the people that can create competitive advantage for the company because people create

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