HR Practices Top 10 Bad
HR Practices
Top 10 Bad
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Introduction
“Everybody talks about practicing the best HR practices, which is a good start but pretty useless if bad practices continue to persist.”
So what are the
which need to be eliminated?
TOP 10
BAD HR PRACTICES
01. Employee Had No Access To Personal Data
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Employee
Employee Data
Contains: Leave records Salary data Attendance records Training details Promotion details
Cannot make out if decisions are based on
correct information
Negative effect on employee-employer
relationship
Creates suspicion
RESULT:
?
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02. Lack Of Clarity On Deliverables
Employee Immediate Boss
Please Define the Job
Deliverables
Employee Immediate Boss
Well? How
am I to know?
Lack of: o Focus
o Interest o Accountability
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04. Employee Development Without His/Her Involvement
Employee A Training Manager
No opportunity given to employees to project their development needs
Employee B
Bad communication skills
Decent communication skills
Employee C
Excellent communication skills
We’re organizing a workshop to develop your
Communication skills.
B and C, you’re to go. A and B, you’ll attend a workshop on Analytics
later this month.
Excellent analyst
Not an analyst
Average analyst
THIS LEADS TO – Unplanned employee development and wasteful effort, both in terms of time and money.
But…
That’s final.
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05. Rusting of Talent
Job becomes routine and monotonous
Job is interesting
again
Without change in
position
With change in
position
2-3 Years in a Position Faces new challenges
Contributes & Innovates
No Change
Change in Position or Location
06. Non-Performers Lobby
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Non-Performers Lobby
Non-Performing Employees
Non-Performing Managers
Professional, competent, high-energy employees
reviews
Stay in the company and form
High Attrition
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07. Retaining Performers
Important Vital
Getting rid of non-performers Identifying, developing and retaining performers
If your best performers are lured away by
the competition, reward schemes
will prove in adequate
Prepared to receive and analyze objective feedback?
o Individual opinions on quality of leadership
o Know their engagement level
o Understand the hindrances that effect their
performance and satisfaction
08. Lack Of Feedback
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Management
Employees
Increased productivity and less disharmony
Decreased productivity and increased disharmony
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09. Line Manager, not a People Manager
Line Manager
Operations Management
People Management Who’s to blame if they fail to perform this one?
They perform this function
BUT
HR needs to institutionalize a system that ensures that team managers
are trained on people management prior to appointment
10. Technophobia
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Veteran Employee/Manager
Technology is too complicated!
Refuse to acknowledge:
o Technology can empower HR
o Provides timely, accurate & quality
information to aid in decision-
making
Exposure to SaaS will demonstrate that
there is no need for:
Elaborate hardware platforms
Software expertise
They feel that:
o Fresh IT staff will be required to
manage computer based systems
Thank You
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