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It is hard to believe that after 20 years of being called Human Resources, it is widely reported that HR doesn’t get no respect. Blame it on the lawyers?? Can’t blame this one on them? George, what do you think? Well according to this article in BusinessWeek Online, there are three major reasons as to why HR don’t get no respect:
Business leaders don’t understand HR;
Top execs often undervalue the HR leadership role;
Reporting structures send a signal (meaning, if HR isn’t reporting to the CEO, it won’t be taken seriously in the organization).
My belief? I don’t think many companies truly value their employees enough. This gets reflected in the value placed on the HR function.
Read the article here.
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Hey! I was gonna write about this!
Just proves if I wait a while Michael will post on an article I was holding for a rainy day. . .
My favorite quotes from the article:
“I have this advice for anyone who interviews for the top HR spot: . . . say: “I will require the same compensation as your CFO.” Of course, as HR leader you’ll be privy to this information, so there’s no fooling you. Why would a company hesitate to pay its top people officer just what its top money officer is earning? Beats me — unless the company doesn’t value its people as much as it says it does. . .”
“It’s a vicious circle: HR doesn’t pay what it should, so good people leave, and brilliant candidates aren’t attracted to the field, so HR doesn’t pay what it should, and so on.
Any CEO can snap her fingers and break that cycle, however. To do so only requires a relentless determination to find a creative, fearless, and business-savvy HR leader. Pay this person appropriately, demand that he produce results — meaning, assemble a championship team both for now and the future — and stand back.”
Give ‘em hell. . .