Saturday, November 21, 2009

HR - Multiple Personality Disorder ???

So, as you can tell from my last few posts I have been actively reading the Wall Street Journal. I am not sure if many of you spend much time reading the Wall Street Journal but sometimes the placement of stories is quite interesting and the November 16th edition was one such time.....

In the "Marketplace" section (section B) on page 5 the editors decided to place the following articles on the same page under the heading "Managing" ....."Businesses Mount Efforts to Retain Valued Employees" AND "Job Cuts Kept Eaton on Track, Allowing CEO Cutler to Focus on Growth."

Who's the genius to put those two articles together??

To me, this demonstrates an overall lack of respect for the value employees and human resource professionals bring to workplaces throughout America and the world. What this says to me is we value employees so long as we can make a lot of money, buy large sums of property or cool new equipment, and/or acquire other companies.

The BIG question is SO WHAT? This epitomizes the two worlds HR lives and works in AND what our peers and superiors expect from us

We do a great job of working inside this "multi-personality-disorder" profession. But as I like to say the work we do is like walking on the edge of a knife, lean too far either way and you get cut sometimes badly.....

So, go out there and be careful.......

For what it's worth... Politically Incorrect HR

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