On August 27, 2009
HR: Nothing Personal
“The more I know about you as a person, the less effective I am at my job in HR,” says Punk Rock HR in this pithy little post. Initially, I read this as a deliberately provocative statement — isn’t it essential that an HR professional be a “people person” above all? But reading the comments and thinking about it a bit further, it began to make more sense. A line manager may need to have good rapport with the people they work with, but the in HR, it may be beneficial to be at one remove, able to offer objectivity and oversight across the whole of the company. “HR professionals are employee advocates, charged with making sure the employer-employee relationship…
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