How beautiful your workplace is if
it has an independent and capable HR personnel, isn’t it?
Referring to what I have posted
before about “Dear Bosses, What Employees Thinks About Your Company?”, and I
have mentioned some points which relate about employees satisfaction under of
workplace environment and HR personnel successful duties. I see both of them
have a mutualism.
Based on my friends' work
experiences, companies are putting HR positions as one of the vital roles
in the organization, just like Finance and Legal Departement. On contrary, some
companies haven’t seen that HR position as important as Finance Department.
In other words, it can be the third, fourth, fifth, or else the last priority in
the organization structure.
My ex-boss in the previous company used to says “how we could run the system smoothly without a good
standard of operation, also want to employees being royal to us without fulfilling
their needs”
. All of those things, likely to manage employees’
administration stuff, recruit new team, developing the existing team, to
support working environment in there. Seems easy to run? I can say, no, it is
not. Because becoming HR personnel means we are not only playing with your duties
and for our rights but also, you have responded to all of your coworkers'
rights in the organization. So, we need high integrity and responsibility to
run our duties.
Here, I will share with you some of
my insights (I got them from my previous work experiences in comparison with my
friends’ who work in the five-starred companies) about five advantages of having
an independent HR personnel:
Check these out.
1. Get an update on the government regulation about human resources
In fact, our government represented by the Ministry of Labour is already
regulated some statutes which bridge between the business owner and the
employees. The statue tells us what employees would and should get after they
have their job clearly. Yearly they update the regulation to synchronize with
recent issues. Usually, a good HR Crew will automatically update the changes and
re-adapt them to the organization.
For example, it is about some public holiday dates which everyone waits
for, or minimum range of regional wages, in this case, who will get the
advantages if they get a recent update? They are employees and the management.
2. To bridging between Board of Director and the management and the
employees
As far we know that the Board Director (BOD) wouldn’t have any time to
manage the administration kinds of stuff, they should focus on the organization
strategy and investment. What things they have been meeting in a place, then
move to another ballroom to attend another meeting with clients, and moving
again to BOD space and they have a meeting for the sake of the organization.
And, about the management do’s has nothing related with the employees’
administration pieces of stuff, it is all belong to HR. What they have should be done is
work the order of the BOD meeting decision, and delegate it to the supervisor
level and the senior staff.
From our point of views based
on our friends experience sharing, an employee who works under the boss (CEO,
or business owner) get more hard pressure of his work rather than an employee
who works in an organization which has a hierarchy structure.
3. To give employees an adequate atmosphere of working
You can keep my words here which would to tell you that employees’
satisfaction would be increase if they have a comfortable working space to run
their job. Let’s think what facilities have company given to them will
influence employees’ mood of work and work performances. Who will stay
in such a messy situation? I wonder none will do. I mean, if you got a problem and
you can not say it to your boss or your teammate or anyone from a different
department, you could go to the HR department and let them solve it with their
structure. Then, the conflict will be solved.
4. To increase employees satisfaction and proudness being the
organization member, also, to assist employees to get their best achievement in
their work
This’ part
of my favorite when I ever worked as HR personnel. Why? Here’s my story.
Leaders
from the different divisions will submit their teamwork progress’ to me and I will
summarize all of them and calculate them. I get to know what they have done
successfully and what difficulties they were facing when they don’t get their
target. Or, I keep thinking it is my bad for not providing them such good
support, or they have something in their mind which distract their mood to
work. I will ask a team who don’t get their target in the last two periods and
ask them personally later. I aid them to solve their obstacle and bring back
their good work performance.
Even
though the bonus that team would get is not for HR personnel, however, it is
still our honor and proud to see our team get it. They deserve to get it for
all their hard work for a period.
5. To Increase company value and brand in the public
Yeah, I think the points above, especially what I mention in point three
and number four are closely related to number five will tell you.
Your organization is updated to the recent ministry rule; then, you
have a beautiful role to run; you keep improving your work due to your company
provides good things you need; I bet you will tell people outside the organization that it is a good place to work, won’t you? Because I will do it if I have one.
When HR has an employee selection, all of the things above will be one of HR’s
advantages. They won’t face any hard moment to announce that they open a vacancy
since the qualified job seekers will make a queue to register their resume to
the company. Some people still believe a-mouth-to-mouth-opinion is still good
strength for HR to get people's attention about the company. If the Marketing
department makes a good product branding, then HR will make a good name image
for the organization. Furthermore, it starts from the insiders.
*If I am being asked what my dream job is, of course, I am going to answer in this way:
I only want to work in a company which has an independent HR Department. So, I can rely on my carrier on it, I will get a better chance to develop my skill better and better again and as much I can gain.
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