Dear Seniors ,
Greetings of the day!
I am HR professional currently working with a manufacturing unit in an MNC company as a Senior HR Executive.
But before moving forward, I thought I will share with you few issues which I am facing in my current job. It will be really helpful if you could help me with your valuable suggestions.
I joined this company one year back and It was the first time they were starting with the HR department. Previously all the HR related jobs were handled by the Secretary to the MD and Finance department. Before we are a team of two people, with a trainee working under me. During the Interview, they mentioned to us that we will be responsible for all HR related tasks from the scratch.
Most of the people from the top management sits in the HO, are with more than 15-20 years of experience in the same company. They have adapted the pre-existing culture and the way of working . It seems that they have almost closed their eyes for any future changes. Most of the HR related tasks like preparing offer letters, hiring employees in the system, issuing letters etc… was handled by the Secretary of MD and Payroll processing, exit formalities etc… were handled by Finance team. In short, the secretary and the Finance team was working on mutual coordination from HO.
Now, we joined in the branch office as HR and as communicated we started with updating the company policies and designed the procedures for different HR processes ( recruitment process, exit process, appraisal process, joining process…etc). We discussed and shared the same with our line manager, who is the GM for Plant Operations sitting in the branch office for approvals and he shared the same with the top management who sits at Head Office. Also, we shared the roles and responsibilities that we should handle. As a result of which, they approved our draft for roles and responsibilities except for compensation and benefits area since it is handling by the Finance department. There was no support from the top management regarding the same and the reason what they gave is the Head of Finance is handling it for more than 20 years and it is not proper to ask him to give the responsibility to the people who joined now.
Our GM shared all the documents designed by us with the top management at HO for the final approvals. They approved few processes but in practice they want to continue with the old processes and handled from HO even our branch office related tasks. We tried to speak to the GM few times regarding our roles and responsibilities but things are not changing. Honestly speaking, every morning when we are coming to the office, we do not have any work to do. Few months back, as requested by them we drafted new formats for offer letters and sent it to the HO and after few days we received a new format which was changed by the secretary and approved by the MD with an instruction to follow the new format from now onwards. The company policies we drafted are still not approved from HO.
Our GM is somewhat convinced but since the other top management is sitting in the HO, we were not able to communicate to them directly. GM plays an intermediary role between us and the HO. Since we are only responsible for the branch office, we are not getting enough support from the HO. We will not be able to achieve our goals without the support from HO because they are the decision makers. The Trainee who was working under me left the company few months back since she was not getting any chance to work in HR. I am also planning to leave this company since I am also not getting any exposure in HR and moreover I am not comfortable with the working environment. I know, I fought with the management only for the HR rights not for any personal profit. I was working in a top FMCG company abroad before joining here. I am totally upset with the behaviour of our Management. There is no HR person in this company or in the HO to support me.
We thought of sharing our problems with you since you all are experienced person in the HR field. We have become totally helpless and we believe that you can help us with some valuable suggestions/advices.
Looking forward to hear back from you!
Thanks & Regards,
Siju
Greetings of the day!
I am HR professional currently working with a manufacturing unit in an MNC company as a Senior HR Executive.
But before moving forward, I thought I will share with you few issues which I am facing in my current job. It will be really helpful if you could help me with your valuable suggestions.
I joined this company one year back and It was the first time they were starting with the HR department. Previously all the HR related jobs were handled by the Secretary to the MD and Finance department. Before we are a team of two people, with a trainee working under me. During the Interview, they mentioned to us that we will be responsible for all HR related tasks from the scratch.
Most of the people from the top management sits in the HO, are with more than 15-20 years of experience in the same company. They have adapted the pre-existing culture and the way of working . It seems that they have almost closed their eyes for any future changes. Most of the HR related tasks like preparing offer letters, hiring employees in the system, issuing letters etc… was handled by the Secretary of MD and Payroll processing, exit formalities etc… were handled by Finance team. In short, the secretary and the Finance team was working on mutual coordination from HO.
Now, we joined in the branch office as HR and as communicated we started with updating the company policies and designed the procedures for different HR processes ( recruitment process, exit process, appraisal process, joining process…etc). We discussed and shared the same with our line manager, who is the GM for Plant Operations sitting in the branch office for approvals and he shared the same with the top management who sits at Head Office. Also, we shared the roles and responsibilities that we should handle. As a result of which, they approved our draft for roles and responsibilities except for compensation and benefits area since it is handling by the Finance department. There was no support from the top management regarding the same and the reason what they gave is the Head of Finance is handling it for more than 20 years and it is not proper to ask him to give the responsibility to the people who joined now.
Our GM shared all the documents designed by us with the top management at HO for the final approvals. They approved few processes but in practice they want to continue with the old processes and handled from HO even our branch office related tasks. We tried to speak to the GM few times regarding our roles and responsibilities but things are not changing. Honestly speaking, every morning when we are coming to the office, we do not have any work to do. Few months back, as requested by them we drafted new formats for offer letters and sent it to the HO and after few days we received a new format which was changed by the secretary and approved by the MD with an instruction to follow the new format from now onwards. The company policies we drafted are still not approved from HO.
Our GM is somewhat convinced but since the other top management is sitting in the HO, we were not able to communicate to them directly. GM plays an intermediary role between us and the HO. Since we are only responsible for the branch office, we are not getting enough support from the HO. We will not be able to achieve our goals without the support from HO because they are the decision makers. The Trainee who was working under me left the company few months back since she was not getting any chance to work in HR. I am also planning to leave this company since I am also not getting any exposure in HR and moreover I am not comfortable with the working environment. I know, I fought with the management only for the HR rights not for any personal profit. I was working in a top FMCG company abroad before joining here. I am totally upset with the behaviour of our Management. There is no HR person in this company or in the HO to support me.
We thought of sharing our problems with you since you all are experienced person in the HR field. We have become totally helpless and we believe that you can help us with some valuable suggestions/advices.
Looking forward to hear back from you!
Thanks & Regards,
Siju