Is HR an advocate for the employee or the employer?
Really an important question - Is HR an advocate for the employee or the employer? Or perhaps they are the nurturers of the relationship that exists solely for the reason of profit-making. Blending things like humanity, counseling, and arbitration into the mix to keep things sane and tolerable.
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"By the 1930s, human resources started to become and be seen as advocates for employees, and the reason for that, frankly, was because companies were trying to keep unions out," explained Peter Cappelli, professor of management at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Center for Human Resources. "The idea of being able to tell people at the top of the company: 'Hey, the workers are unhappy about this' really mattered because they cared whether workers were unhappy because they thought they might unionize otherwise. In that period, HR developed this kind of reputation as being the workers' advocate, and that's probably true up to 1970."
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675Really an important question - Is HR an advocate for the employee or the employer? Or perhaps they are the nurturers of the relationship that exists solely for the reason of profit-making. Blending things like humanity, counseling, and arbitration into the mix to keep things sane and tolerable.
Excerpt:
"By the 1930s, human resources started to become and be seen as advocates for employees, and the reason for that, frankly, was because companies were trying to keep unions out," explained Peter Cappelli, professor of management at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Center for Human Resources. "The idea of being able to tell people at the top of the company: 'Hey, the workers are unhappy about this' really mattered because they cared whether workers were unhappy because they thought they might unionize otherwise. In that period, HR developed this kind of reputation as being the workers' advocate, and that's probably true up to 1970."
https://www.marketplace.org/2017/10/...loyee-employer
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HR individuals are nothing but employees of the organization, like others working in the same organization. When management is friendly and humanitarian, the HR is good, but when the reverse is true, the HR is bad. The HR generalist can never be bad because all the Acts and rules framed are worker or employee-friendly.
There are some people who want to extract benefit by exploiting the ignorance of the workers/employees regarding their privileges. Not only that, the union formed to safeguard the rights of employees sometimes falls into the hands of management, sacrificing the very goal. This feeling is due to the changing behavior (lust, greed, and passion) of humans. In the near future, some changes are expected as some old laws are being simplified.
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There are some people who want to extract benefit by exploiting the ignorance of the workers/employees regarding their privileges. Not only that, the union formed to safeguard the rights of employees sometimes falls into the hands of management, sacrificing the very goal. This feeling is due to the changing behavior (lust, greed, and passion) of humans. In the near future, some changes are expected as some old laws are being simplified.
From India, Mumbai
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