I am a good HR person…I believe…

07.14.2010 · Posted in All, HR

I came across this blog by Frank Roche. I believe it is a great article that can be re-posted…

I am a good HR hence…I believe…

o Employees want to do a good job.
o They were great when you hired them.
o People do what they get rewarded to do.
o In paying for performance.
o A good manager can make up for a lot of crappy policies.
o A great manager comes along only once in a while.
o Great managers should be paid at the 99th percentile.
o Crappy policies and crappy managers should be scrapped.
o Employees are productive at different times of the day.
o There’s nothing wrong with overpaying people.
o You can’t ask for commitment unless you give it first.
o It’s important to have friends at work.
o You should say hello to everyone every morning.
o You should say goodnight when they leave.
o People want to work with superstars.
o There are more hidden superstars out there than we think there are.
o In honest communications.
o Everyone has a hidden talent.
o You should know the birthday of everyone who works with you.
o You should celebrate your employees’ birthdays when they happen.
o Executives get isolated and lose track of what’s going on.
o HR has a role in keeping executives grounded.
o HR does its best when it has guts.
o The power of diversity of thought is huge.
o None of us is as stupid as all of us when it comes to editing.
o The way we do performance management is awful.
o Real performance management is about management, not about annual ratings.
o Management is done by walking around.
o HR shouldn’t make up silly names for managers, like “career coach.”
o Calling employees human capital is about to jump the shark.
o HR shouldn’t practice psychology without a license.
o Behavioral-based interviewing is for the birds.
o In asking candidates if they can do the job.
o In asking employees to prove it.
o Forced rankings are…forced.
o Merit increases can never be performance differentiators.
o People work for more than money.
o Managers are naive if they think people don’t work for money.
o Layoffs as an annual business strategy is doomed.
o HR was asleep at the switch at some doomed financial services companies.
o People will do a lot more when rules are eliminated.
o We need more lawyers in HR and fewer lawyers telling HR what to do.
o Cynical HR people should get out of HR.
o Anyone who subscribes to Theory X should never be in HR.
o HR attracts an inordinate number of people who used to be hall monitors.
o HR would do well to work its way out of a job.
o Systems work in HR.
o We have too many processes and not enough systems.
o HR and managers need to listen more.
o Handwritten notes go farther than all the recognition programs combined.
o Travel incentive awards are really motivating.
o Teambuilding should be an everyday thing, not done at retreats.
o HR forgot that being fair and treating everyone the same aren’t the same things.
o HR should help managers manage.
o Managers can be trained.
o Not all managers should be managers.
o In great benefits.
o Onsite dog walking and massage therapists are overrated.
o In the company making money.
o HR helping employees understand how.
o I HR should stop buying HR software that never works right.
o In great leaders.
o In small gestures.
o I believe we work 11,250 days out of our 25,000 we get in a lifetime.
o I believe it’s HR’s job to make every one of those days the best they can.