Feeling Torn: Should I Share My HR Knowledge with My Team or Keep It to Myself?

Dear Friends,

I just joined a CA Firm. Here, there is more work in Admin than HR. However, they hired me for setting up the HR department, and my role is that of a HR generalist. I am handling all the functions, but whenever I talk about any HR term, they seem to have less understanding. Please suggest if I need to give a presentation on a particular topic and share some material/literature.

I feel that if I share all my HR knowledge with them, what will be the importance of my role? They might start handling it themselves even in my absence. Please advise if I should share my HR knowledge with them through a presentation.

Please suggest.

Thank you.

Hi Swati,

Spreading knowledge doesn't mean that it will make you empty. You can share them, but keep certain limits in all. Do you get my suggestion?

Thanks,
Pascal S.

Hello Swati,

By sharing your knowledge, you will gain importance and not lose the position. If you don't share your knowledge with your seniors, how will you progress? Keep certain limitations and do not give an overdose of anything that will serve your purpose, I think.

Do ask for any further clarifications.

Regards,

Hey,

Be careful with CA firms; the one word they understand best is cost reduction. If you teach them everything, then you are not needed. :-P :icon6: That was a joke. Sharing knowledge always paves the way to finding new things to share. But make it interesting because these are numbers people, and they get bored quite fast.

Regards,
Caroline M.

Dear Swati,

You can share the knowledge that will help you work efficiently, since later on you will also need to do it.

Swati

Dear Sanjay,

Never resign from your current job if you don't have anything in writing yet. Many organizations provide an offer letter initially, and then follow up with an appointment letter once the offer is accepted. Do not solely rely on verbal agreements that you may have been given. It is advisable to request an offer letter at the minimum and a specific joining date.

Regards,
Ranjeet

Dear Sanjay,

If you do not have any written proof of your new employment, what is the sense of resigning from your current job? You could ask them to email the offer letter, and once you receive it, you can acknowledge it. Some companies do send offer letters via email to new employees before their joining date. Upon the new employee's onboarding, they are provided with a hard copy of the same.

With kind regards,

Kalpana Juneja

Hi Swati,

As you are working with a CA firm, all your seniors would be best in Accounts and not in HR. You can give them some idea regarding the HR activities, as there is no need to provide in-depth knowledge. Sharing knowledge is really good, but it should be the right knowledge for the right person. This is what I think; you can take advice from the HR professionals who have good experience.

Hi Sanjay,

Resignation letter is just to confirm that there is no dual employment when you join the new organization. So if you really want to join the new organization, then you can request them to provide you with a soft copy of the offer letter. It should not be that you resign from the current organization without any document proof regarding your joining in the new organization and you lose both. Tell them to provide some written proof so that you can resign from your current organization based on that.

Thank you.

Dear Mr. Ranjeet,

Thank you for your suggestion. The company wants me to join without giving a notice period as well. I have informed them that it is not possible from my side.

Regards,
Sanjay

First of all, you should know what you are planning to do as an HR person. Prepare a report, statement, slide, etc., of policy. Also, provide both merits and demerits of the policy (merits should always outweigh demerits). Explain briefly with confidence. That's all. Best of luck.

Ramesh.I

Dear Friends,

I just joined a CA firm where there is more work in administration than HR. However, they hired me for HR setup, and my role is entirely in HR generalist profile. I am handling all the functions, but whenever I talk about any HR term, they seem to have limited understanding. Please suggest, do I need to give a presentation on a particular topic and share some material/literature? I feel that if I disclose all my HR points to them, what will be my importance? They might start doing it themselves even in my absence. Please suggest if I should share my HR knowledge with them through a presentation.

Please suggest.

Swati Saxena

Hi Swathi,

If you have such a doubt, just educate them to the level that they can understand your talent, but don't train them to such an extent that they can do it without. Your doubt is reasonable in the present trend.

Wishes,
srikanth@leprasociety.org