Friday, June 12, 2009

HR Vigilance - An Introduction

Albert Einstein once said “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires a creative imagination and marks the real advances in science”. This is the best way I could start with aptly portraying how Human Resources grows an Organization and itself with each passing day.

“Welcome This Way”
Welcome everybody to this blogpage, a journey by itself exploring the science behind the corporate world of all Human Resource Professionals. The art with which they have dealt with the stickiest of the situations, to meeting Mr. glum, to taking a firm stand and representing their Organizations, to drafting new policies that were scorned at and yet eventually brought profits, to being the underdogs of the system.

“Who’s an HR?”
This reminds me of a story I have been told, which portrays what an HR means in an Organization. It says so that we imagine a waiter of a restaurant as an HR. When the grub comes good, the restaurant finds all doors swinging every minute and accolades pouring in its guest books. However when the grub has an outside entity, like a fly perched on top of the dish; the immediate repercussion is the waiter getting blasted at. And it may never really reach the owner of the restaurant. All this while the waiter needs to put up a smile, apologise and do a better job the next time. The smile he dons onto is all what makes the difference in handling the chaos, which could get beyond control.

“Who am I?”
I am a young HR Professional, just begun my career into this life and times of being an HR person that fascinates me so much. The way HR people carry themselves, the way we build a bond and bridge the gap in trying to reach our clients - the employees of the Organization, understanding the psychology of the human mind that decides how people behave and act, what grievances can cause distress at workplace and seeing to it that they are de-clogged, act as building blocks to the Organizations needs – becoming a business partner, adding quality into the lives of people, and above all it’s about empathizing with people. When I look at the long term goals an HR fulfils, beyond business it’s associating with the human kind and nurturing the growth of the individuals in all spheres. It’s about adding value to everybody HR has ever touched and come across. It’s about sharing our nature – the human kind and rising together as the knowledge quotient of nations, tuning our intelligence to positive purposes/meaning in life.

“And the Content..”
This is going to be a page where I share my observations and thought process that I see happening around. It would be w.r.t the Organization I am working with and other Organizations I come across, and spreading it from a micro to macro perspective. The prime reason being humans wherever they be, somehow exhibit similar behaviour. The concept behind “HR Vigilance” is creating awareness about the various things people indulge in and how an HR person can remain vigilant in these activities they face. What methods they could come out with in similar situations, and discussing cases.

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