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For those of you with prior work experience, here are some simple questions.
Who was the person representing the company when you first walked in for an assessment interview? Possibly, a guy from the HR department of the company, taking care of recruitments.
For those of you who have had issues with the management or have at any stage switched jobs, who was the person who played the role of ears and mouth of the company? Again a person from the HR department.
Your experiences might vary from firm to firm but the point that the HR department is an important representative of the company has been made. In fact HR is the sole department taking care of a company's internal marketing. You will be happy or unhappy with your firm depending upon the extent to which the people from this department have understood the HR policies of your firm and employed them for your benefit.
The idea of viewing HR as an independent corporate activity deserving credit is a pretty recent one in India. There are many reasons why HR might have been relegated to the shadows of its more dashing cousins like marketing, finance and operations. A few prominent ones being -
The wretched salaries being offered till very recently to HR professionals. (This is changing.)
Lack of corporate backing to educational institutions, which are churning out HR professionals.
The general perception of students about HR being a "common sense" discipline not worth specializing in.
Lack of apparent "Power" and "Glamour" associated with an HR profile.
I will try to address the above-mentioned concerns / misconceptions over the next few paragraphs.
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* Contributed by -
Manan Sharma,
PGPM - Batch 2007,
Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai.
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