Thanks for the advice!
I am an HR Generalist now, previously i had an extensive recruitment background. I want to get into comp & ben, Performance management etc. The problem in the current org is that HR is new and this is an industry where HR has never existed. it was handled by Finance. HR's come into being only a little over a year in our organisation.
but it's appalling to see that HR, headed by my boss, has achieved so little so far. she herself is not from a hardcore HR background, her strength lies only in training. perhaps that's why she's not reclaimed back the HR role from Finance and each time i talk of C&B initiatives, even policies, she says that she can decide only after consulting with Finance, a decision that never comes. She has about 18 years of experience and the team she has in Mumbai consists of secretaries and data entry operators who've moved into HR. obviously they haven't gone through adequate training and do not understand HR's role beyond paper pushing.
sometimes i wonder why she even hired me?! clearly my career aspirations and background do not match the rest of the team. And if she wanted to hire someone capable and senior enough, i don't understand why she can't empower me so i can do my job effectively?! at the time of the interview, she made it look like a challenging job where i would have the freedom to implement my ideas '' it's a blank canvas, feel free to paint'' is what she had said.And i didn't want to do just a maintenance job in HR. so i joined and how i've been duped!
in addition to this i have to face hostility from the Finance guys who are another bunch of inefficient idiots! unfortunately they've been hired by the Delhi Head so they're well protected. but me, no one cares about!
to give you a small example of how deeply this is affecting me - we'll be moving to a new office very soon. the other day we were going through the floor plan. my room is rather small, in fact the smallest. of course, the Finance guy's room is 3 times the size of my room. i dreamed that we'd shifted to the new office and that i was looking for my room. There it was , big letters in shiny steel hooked outside the door - 'HR'. i stepped in to find that it was in fact a bathroom!!! one side with the bathtub and the other side was the basin and toilet. i objected and told them that that was no place for anyone to work in! they said that the bathtub was the perfect place for storing files and that i could use the toilet to sit on and work on my laptop :(
so humiliating! shows how demoralized i am and how i think my position and work is viewed by the management here!
i've had too many movements in my career and i really wanted to stay on in a company this time and grow within the org. the CEO, who my boss reports into, also sits in Mumbai, it's hard for me to reach him.
isn't it funny, we talk of bad managers and how HR can intervene and sort out issues. we suggest transfers to different teams. but how does one cope in a situation when the Head of HR herself is the problem for her team member??
and i sometimes even wonder about the seriousness and commitment of our CEO towards HR, clearly can't he see what the Head HR is upto for the last one year? there is still no automation (we do everything manually on paper), policies haven't been revised and laid down as yet either! she's just trying to please the CEO by working on mission and vision statements but the policies that govern day to day running of the org that directly effect employee benefits still haven't been worked upon! i don't have answers to employee entitlements!
sighhh! any ideas?!