Request for Salary Increment Letter Drafting Assistance for HR Manager

Hi all,

I am an HR Manager and I urgently need a letter to give to the management of my organization to increase the salary of an employee working under me due to his good performance.

Please.

Thank you.

Dear Ranbir,

If you are the HR Manager, then by now you should have developed business writing skills. I am a little surprised by the way you have written this post or the way you wanted seniors to spoon-feed you! I recommend that you write the letter on your own and upload it here. Some senior will correct it. Salary increments should happen automatically based on the grade that the employee acquires in the performance appraisal. Why are you required to write the letter?

Ok...

Dinesh V Divekar

OK, but I have become an HR Manager just recently, a week ago. So please post the letter. I am trying myself as well, but can't get it.

Dear Ranbir,

As is my custom, I will raise a few questions in addition to those brought up by Dinesh Divekar (DD). What were you doing before you became an HR Manager? What qualifications do you possess? How can you determine within a week that the person working under you has performed well? As DD accurately pointed out, is there no scheme in place where an employee receives a raise based on Performance Appraisal?

I recommend that you heed DD's advice and share a draft for others to review and enhance the content and structure.

Hello Ranbir Kapoor,

You may not 'like' or 'want' this, but I think you 'need' this response.

But before I go into my response to your posting, I suggest you go through the recent thread mentioned below, taking ONLY--repeat ONLY--the essence/spirit of the thread vis-a-vis your problem/posting:

https://www.citehr.com/411361-advise...ng-letter.html

Coming to your 'urgent need', I am not sure of how your recent becoming the HR manager is linked to the ability to draft the letter you want. Do you mean to say that the ability to draft letters comes in any specific timeframe AFTER becoming the HR Manager--for you or anyone?

There's a beginning for any skill--whether writing/drafting the letter you mentioned or even for the simple act of cycling or running the right way. Unless one makes the beginning/start, there's no way he/she will ever learn that particular skill. And mistakes/errors are a part of that learning process.

By asking for a spoon-feed [despite Dinesh V Divekar suggesting you to FIRST make the attempt & THEN ask for advice/suggestions], you are only causing YOURSELF more harm than good in the long-term--NOT anyone in this Forum.

You have also not answered Dinesh V Divekar's query regarding the performance appraisal mechanism in your company. Maybe the answer to YOUR query lies in answering his query?

Coming to your comment "I'm trying myself also but can't get it", all one can say is: it just means YOU HAVEN'T TRIED ENOUGH. There's NOTHING--absolutely nothing--that one can't get/learn--it all depends on the effort. I remember reading in the news a couple of weeks back that the son of a Bihar coolie/labourer cleared the Civil Services Exam this year. How is that person superior to you? I am sure you too can identify similar examples yourself.

Hope you got the point.

How to take this posting--including labeling this posting/response as a 'bhashan'--is up to you.

All the Best.

Regards,

TS

Dear Dinesh Divekar, Nashbramhall, and Tajsateesh,

I do not work in any company; I work in a small factory. I am not a qualified HR Manager; I am just a Manager. I want a letter to give to our Chairman to request a salary raise for an employee working in the accounts department.

Thank you.

Like we said earlier, please draft a letter and post it; we will help you to modify it if necessary.

We all learned to walk by ourselves as children; falling and making mistakes are all part of learning.

Hello Ranbir Kapoor,

Like all of us mentioned earlier, please post a draft from your end. Again, please don't worry that there will be mistakes - you bet there will be. But that's the surest way to learn - by making mistakes and then going about correcting them.

Looking at your situation [........I work in a small factory and I'm not a qualified HR Manager........] from another angle, you fail to realize that you have one VERY BIG advantage compared to qualified MBAs - you don't have to think about what others will think about your writing skills. And that's the surest way to learn: making mistakes when you have alibis. Once you grow in your career, you won't have them [your experience will be against your making mistakes freely - in the process of learning].

Hope you get the point. Looking forward to your draft.

Regards,
TS

Dear Ranbir,

If you are looking for readymades, Wren and Martin is a book that gives you some standard letters. You might also purchase a book in the market that has standard business correspondences. We (My company) could provide you with one for a fee! CiteHR may not be keen on entertaining this request as you can gauge from the responses. And if it was truly urgent, I am sure you would have done it by now! At the end of the day, it's a one-line letter! And if you can't draft that, it's going to be a storm in a teacup!!!

Reg, Nikhil