Human Resource Department

In his weekly column in Businessweek this week, Jack Welch, a famous ex-CEO of GE, has pointed out the importance of HR in any company. How it is important and why it should take employee initiatives.

Some weeks back, I wrote in this blog about HR and its importance. People still believe it is a supporting cast and HR should make policies for employees. But, HR has a broder scope, its work starts in hiring a correct candidate, the candidate who can add real value to company and grow along with company. It’s important to develop culture of this sort, which encourages or challenges the employees to perform more.

People are the major part of any business; people are DNA of any business for that matter. So, having good, energetic people around is the first firm step towards having success.

The major role of HR is to keep employees motivated. Being human being, how ever self starter he/she may be, employees need external motivation. This is the big responsibility of HR to build and develop this culture.

Identification of correct talent within the organization becomes immense important. Some are good in sales; some are in people building etc. It is important for company to put correct people in correct places. Promotions just because of number of years of experience, has absolutely no meaning. Experience and/or personal interest should go hand in hand; this is the simple way to increase productivity. We all work harder on the work which we like most.

So, it’s rather sad that most of the companies treat HR as support, perhaps it is the important wing of the organization.