Loss Of A Great HR Professional - Roy J George

Dear All,



You must have all been aware of the sad incident :



http://coimbatorelive.blogspot.com/2009/09/top-company-official-injured-in-attack.html (this was last morning news)



Workers kill company VP in Coimbatore - India - NEWS - The Times of India



The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Coimbatore News : Pricol official dies



Being an ex-employee of Pricol, I am deeply worried about the incident. Must say - such a lovely place & group to work with. Unnecessary forces have caused such a ruthless action... It cost a Person' life. I wish every workforce understands that the need for a solution does not require violence.



We all prayed last morning that his condition gets better and some miracle should take place that he gets back to life. But ....



Truly, the HR industry has lost a very important person. To see his profile please visit Roy.J.George

Roy. J.George - LinkedIn



I have not had the chance to work uner him, but I have heard that he is a person who anyoen in the field of HR would want to work with

I pray that his soul rests in peace.

Yeah Asha.........I heard the news this morinin, was a shocking one, really a spine chilling news. I havn't heard abt him, but it chocked me as it a matter of life...We all have to join our hands and show our opposition to such barbaric act.

Yes Chum. People get angry on HR even for their own faults.
All these kind of fradulent activities, people who submit false documents, false salary slips, show their ignorant attitude by not giving respect to their work, try justifying their acts by proving that they are still right. For all this people expect to be "forgiven" and taken back to work for what ever indiscipline?
Violence is not the solution. I urge every HR professional to educate the workforce that if they have any grievances, it needs to be sorted out in the proper manner. What benefit they will get by violence? Nothing - forever they will be identified as wrong doers and their family also will never be respected.
Recently one such candidate who got rejected in an interview, posted a Bad review on the HR of the company online...by stating his name, company and designation. What a fool! The reason why he was not selected in clearly justified.

Dear Asha,

Yes , I agree -- indeed a very sad incident. But I must say that HR Professionals getting beaten up and killed in their place of work in not new to me. Such incidents often happen in jute mills in Kolkata. But I must say that reading and hearing about such incidents really makes me wonder that do HR professional really deserve this?? They have the most difficult and unthankful job in hand. It's always a very tough balance of pleasing the management and the employees/ unions at the same time with your own job hanging in the balance. I have seen my own uncle go through such a trauma leading to his death at a very early age and now it's my turn to face the music. We are only doing our job but the line of judgement is so so thin that it really takes a heavy toll on us at times.
One last thing - I personally feel ( having worked for quite a long tenure in a MNC manufacturing unit) that this is what you call real HR. A person losing his life for the sake of his company means he was really really good at his work for which the union had to take extreme measures to bring matters under their control. It proves that he was winning the long drawn battle hands down which ultimately lead to the foul play by the union.
My salute to Mr George. May his soul rest in peace.

Regards

Dear Awvik,
Well said.... " person losing his life for the sake of his company means he was really really good at his work for which the union had to take extreme measures to bring matters under their control. It proves that he was winning the long drawn battle hands down which ultimately lead to the foul play by the union"
You are right in those lines...

Dear Frnds,
I just came to know about this incident by seeing your postings. Its too bad. People are not performing & they are taking revenge by these methods for the punishments. Its condemnable. Each and every person who are working for the companies has to think as it is their own company then only they will work willfully and with full potential.
These types of incidents are happening quite frequently in our industries. Most of the times it is happening by Union persons only with political support.
This trend has to be changed
Jeeva

Dear All,
I pray that may Mr. Roy George's soul rest in peace.It is really a very sad thing to have happened to a young and promising professional.What surprises me is that the management in spite of such a great loss and sacrifice by Mr. George has decided to keep the plant running and not go in for a lock out or closure. This also proves that HR is a "thankless job" and other management functionaries just ridicule the position by saying that this is a job hazard. The right thing to do for the management was to declare a lock out and open the plant only after intervention of state labour deot. machinery and taking individual undertaking from the workmen for good conduct and discipline. - Praful Joshi

Dear Ash!
I really pray god to rest his soul in peace.
He fell prey to the games of the Pricol Management as any HR Executive in
Coimbatore Industrial arena.
Had Pricol Management is worth for your praise, then you should have continued there.
Had the industries in Coimbatore followed good HR practices, by now,
Chennai could be nowhere near Coimbatore.
I know industries like Pricol for more than a decade. When it was started
it came with colourful but in course of time it started acting as typical coimbatore industry.
I really pity on George's family. May god give the courage for them to
bear this irreparable loss.

This is a great shock. Yeah, there were problems in Pricol, for the past two years, which may also be continuing yet. But problems should be only within the company & its policies and not with people. These problems shouldn’t have resulted in loss of a life. Murder is always shame on mankind. Imagine how pathetic this situation is, a Human resource professional of a company being killed by the very same human resources. Not just as a HR student, but as a human being I greatly condemn this brutal act.
Let Mr. George’s Soul Rest in PEACE.
Lets hope Nothing of this kind will happen anymore.

Dear Asha Madam,
I really want to thank you for making all of us aware about this incident.I have visited to the links you have forwarded.I was not aware about it.I also read articles posted by Mr.Roy J George,he was a great person.This is very sad that we have lost such a great person.
I request all the citehr members that please visit all the links sent byAsha Madam,the articles written by Mr.Roy J George are really very nice any motivational.
I am new in HR profession and I feel proud that I am in such profeesion,because I have got such great seniors like Mr.Roy J George.
I WANT TO SALUTE Mr.Roy J George ON BEHALF OF ALL HR PROFESSIONALS