HR or Human Resources?

sauravdass · #1 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 11:29 AM

Hi, Your message is thought provoking and while it is intriguing there aren't many responses. Although I am new to this community and do not quite stand to comment historically, I do observe that it is a general tendency for most people / users to "read" rather than "participate".

People I think are more of "takers" than being "givers".

"HR" as a function is dominated these days by a lot of young people who are so "awed" by the ambience of their plush offices and cubicles that they tend to forget why they are there in the first place. They tend to lose their Personality and become a corporate 'tool' instead of being a good Individual with a distinct personality of his/ her own.

It is a thought process which I have been pondering for quite some time. I also read a book called "Whoa, my boss is naked" where I have come across similar concepts.

POint is: we are losing / unbecoming who we are in reality.

Result is: we have stopped sharing. We have started ignoring. We have become self-centered. We are all about becoming the "I" factor.

Simultaneously, being in the field of corporate skills testing and assessments based in Bangalore, I have come across some individuals from HR (though they are far and few) who have a distinct Personality and are truly "involved" in what they say/do/commit.

Some of them are young women, working for global IT companies. It's amazing and quite contradictory to a major chunk of women in HR these days, who fall in a category (I am unbiased while writing this), whom we can easily forget after meeting/talking. They are the ones who are ignorant of others; unresponsive; awed by the workplace; but not inspired. Same for guys as well.

Please mark the words "not inspired". That is important. We have also stopped being inspired and have started living life like a machine, running on the same rail, without a driver. We wake up, have a mental jog of the day ahead in office, catch up with the news, and well, we are far away from all our loved ones around us at that immediate point of time.

Later in the day, we are still jogging with more coroporate "tools" (individuals / joggers like us) and it is all about work, work and work, BUT without being actually (mentally/emtionally) involved.

Saurav Kumar Das
Bangalore

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