What can best signal a complete breakdown of an HR process? Well...while the points laid out could possibly run into pages....the easy indicator is when you find a clone of an HR manager / head in every department and at every level. It is often misconstrued that this function / department has a bunch of educated typists who are necessarily paid to follow orders that are seeminly rudimentary to the elite few based on impulsive judgements or compulsive requests that are hard to turn down.....for fear of repurcussions that have otherwise not been evaluated for their genuinity.
It is seeminly an intentional act by the select few -who look at the excruciating process of conforming to an heirarchical order with an ardous method of sustaining it - with complete apathy. One may wonder what is it that compels such a behavior. The answer though may appear simple has risen from deep rooted flaws that have multiplied over time to protect a self nurtured fiefdom...which brings with it the power to grant, the power to approve, the power to give a word....which if not followed amounts to sacrilege.
It is but human for individuals to approach such centers of power to get the seemingly impossible approved.....the result without doubt is anarchy. While this has often resulted in jubiliation for some, with a false sense of pride and achivement....it has often hampered growth with many rising to levels of incompetence. This gives little room to the structured few who have queued up through methodical and result oriented hard work to see any hope.
The resultant is that the levels of thinking, strategic orientation, future vision and cataclysmic growth just becomes a pipe dream. The energy and passion in an organisation comes with a structured approach to nurture and recognise experience with brown matter, which if followed gives away the average joe.
While many would point out to countless organisations who have thrived and grown.....the resilience to extreme external factors have only protected those those that have followed an order...no wonder it is tough to replicate an Infosys or a Wipro easily today.
