“The HR professional
is usually the bearer of bad news when it comes to terminations, disciplinary
action or wage negotiations. So to an ordinary workman, particularly a
misguided one, he represents the face of the organization. Workers are often
unable to tell that the HR manager is simply executing decisions taken by a
collective leadership, and he is not responsible for them.”
-Santrupt Misra,
director, global HR at the Aditya Birla Group
Times
have changed and surely we have come a long way compared to the times of
legendary strikes. HR was considered to be an easy and safe job by many. And
many a times HR personnel are considered to be a negotiator between the company
and its employees.
HR
department is considered to be the interface between the management and the
employees. Thus often they become the carriers of bad news. This is when the
relation between the HR person and the employees get ugly.
Maruti’s
Manesar issue is not the first of its kind. In the past also such incidents
have occured.
Now-a-days HR is
considered to be one of the toughest and most unsafe areas to work in. It is
high time to make the employees realize that the decision making power does not
lie with the HR but it is the joint decision of the top management. Employees
also needs to understand that killing someone does not solve the issue but only
worsens it.
Following the
brutal killing of Awanish Kumar Dev, the HR manager at Maruti's Manesar plant, human resources (HR) heads across the country have gone
into a huddle. Shocked and shaken, the community is rallying together to push
for various kinds of reforms to protect themselves against such attacks in
future.
The National HRD
Network (NHRDN), condemned Dev's murder and said it plans to lobby with other
industry bodies - the Employees Federation of India (EFI), Ficci and CII - to
press the HRD ministry for safer working conditions in plants and factories.
Another reason for
taking up such safety measures is that HR heads are concerned that these attacks will deter
youngsters from taking up the factory stint. Therefore it's high time the country had a code
of conduct for regulating employment.
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