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By Malcolm King, published 1/12/2008There's never been a more incompetent profession working against corporate Australia and the ordinary person in the street than HR management.
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Yes, there are dud HR departments out there, just as there are dud accountants, public servants, garbos, labourers, journalists etc. No one is going to argue this.
However, if you've ever been in an organisation where the executive group have bought into HR management then you'll see the benefits. You'll see remuneration policies that match the way that the business works, you'll see an organisation that's reasonably on top of OH&S, recruitment functions that are reasonably efficient, payroll that's reasonably accurate etc. The reason for using the word 'reasonably' so often there is because we're dealing with humans who don't always get things right, especially where they need to make a judgment call on priorities.
Contrast that with one where you have poor HR management/exec buy-in, you'll get poor bonus pools, overcomplicated processes and managers and employees who are irritated at how things that should be simple aren't.
Generalise like this and you're setting yourself up to fail. The author had a bad experience - fine. Deal with it and get over it. Contact AHRI (http://www.ahri.com.au) and find out who the good employers are and try with them before ranting with generalisations like this.