Why We Hate HR
By: Keith H. Hammonds
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/97/open_hr.html?page=0%2C0
Very interesting article to get HR running more effectively and more accountable to the end result. After reading the first few paragraphs of this article I know why our hr department does some of the things they do to piss us off. This article is right I see my hr department as a group of people who are there to cut costs and complicate things. For example, in the beginning of this year HR implemented a new incentive plan, it was suppose to give a higher incentive pay for top performing teams. We were all very thrilled about it, till we were on a conference all looking at a power point presentation scratching our heads. This was so complicated our HR manager could not explain it without getting complicated, in the end, after a couple of months and a lot of complaints we went back to the old incentive plan. So what did this really accomplish: more drama, consultation, and less output.
Something that stood out for me in this article was how HR had no idea how people serve corporate objectives, and instead of focusing on the outcome many focused on the activities. I agree that the best practice for HR would be to adopt an approach that looks at bottom-line performance improvement and training and development commitments at the same time.
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