HR, but why?Lately I had the good fortune to
You see, I believe you can’t be effective in your job if you don’t understand what’s your purpose… Is the purpose to Hire/Fire/Pay? is it to ensure employee happiness? I believe the answer is deeper… Let’s start. HR’s purpose in a nutshellI assume any organization wants to be Effective. To be effective you have to have a Purpose, and the way to get there, or Execution powers …and they have to be Aligned. Hence it’s HR’s role to
A bit about purpose…To be effective, you have to understand what effect you search, what impact you want to have on the world. Effective people know what they want. Effective organizations have a clear vision as well.
About execution powers...Once you have a purpose, you need the means to get there. If your purpose is to get someplace, you may need a transportation — Feet, Bike, Car, Horse, Plane something you can use to get there. Someone/ something that has enough power to carry you, and is willing/ happy to go the same way. An airplane is useless if the place you want to get to has no airport. Feet are useless if it is not walking distance. A horse should be willing or persuaded to carry you, and will be much happier to carry you if you want to go to a water source than to the middle of the desert. Hence, if your organization needs people in order to move, it needs the people who are capable to take you where you want to go and are motivated to do so. Even if your people have great execution powers, they may still either:
Hence alignment is crucial! About alignmentAlignment is the synchronization between your vision and your execution power, validating they are as close as possible to each other.
If you want to get to a source of water, your best horse would be a thirsty one. When there is no clear purpose...When you don’t have a purpose, you will probably not get there. When the purpose is not clear, your horse goes where it wants. With no clear purpose, there is no good execution power. To be a good car-engine, the engine has to fit the car’s purpose. A race-car’s engine will burn-out when installed in a city car, while a city-car’s engine will not help win a car-race. Hence, whether your engine is good or not (or your team is good or not) depends on your car’s (or company’s) purpose. When you have no matching execution powersIn case all you have is a horse, better adjust your destination to somewhere the horse can get to (not too far away), and won’t resist going to (preferably even be happy to get there). A vision is not just a dream, but a realistic dream.
A horse with no slack won’t be happy, people with no realistic goals may leave. So what's HR's role?HR is the glue between the vision and the execution power, it should:
So, in my opinion, HR’s main role is not to make employees happy, unless they believe happy employees have a better execution power. Recruitment, firing, salaries, trainings etc. Are not HR’s purpose, but mere tools that may serve the purpose! Once you are locked on your purpose, let’s talk on how to get there. (perhaps next post?) Till nextime!
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