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HR’s Easy Button
By Ron | August 19, 2008
You’ve seen the commercials - lady in the store trying to use her Staples Easy Button to pay for her groceries. In HR, I was always looking for the Easy Button since dealing with humans is probably the most complex thing on earth. I’ve seen engineers design unbelievably complex electronic circuits, but they don’t come close to the difficulty of human relations. Circuit performance is predictable; human performance isn’t.
The complexity skyrockets when we place the wrong people in positions, especially wrong managers. How many times have we seen the promotion of a great technical person to end up with a terrible manager?
The HR Easy Button, of course, is to hire and promote the right people. Simple, huh? If we hire or promote people with the management/leadership competencies into management jobs, our job would be simple. Good managers have few employee relations issues in their departments. They hire the right people, set-up a motivational environment, pay their people for performance - my goodness, we could end-up like that Maytag repair man with nothing or no one to repair!
If this really is our Easy Button, why don’t we put 80% of our energy and focus on it? Why haven’t we perfected the staffing process? It must not be easy.
Topics: HR |
August 19th, 2008 at 5:14 am
The HR Easy Button…lol, you should market that one to recruiters. You’d make a fortune. Plus, getting great managers in the right position — priceless.