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Career Tip
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Plan
Your Career move carefully and don't just shift from
one job to another for the smallest of reasons!
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HR & The Terror Stricken
Indian Industry
India was and is a fortunate land of great
thinkers, beautiful places, and marvelously intelligent minds. But some
times the intelligent mind is constructive and sometimes it may be
destructive.
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India has been hit by terror at many
instances, sometimes its Mumbai, or Jaipur or the Silicon City
Bangalore or the premier management institute place Ahmedabad. Recently,
it was the real height when Bangalore and Ahmedabad were head on
consecutive days.
In this scenario, the employees are stricken
badly by this terror shock as people from all over India and even abroad
come to these metros for working they may feel and consider going back to
their native and look for some other means for earning the livelihood.
Also, the stakeholders of the company may think of shutting their offices
down in these places and move to places where things are cheaper and
comparatively safer.
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HR department who always has to maintain a dual focus – one towards
the employees and the other towards the stakeholders, is in a crucial
position at this point of time. They have to maintain a high morale of
both the parties i.e. employees as well as stakeholders. Let’s take the
cases one by one. Taking the approach downside up towards the
organization, we will take the employees first.
In this situation, the primary goal is to keep the employee moral high. HR
can use certain means which may prove to be very useful.
One on one
Counseling –
HR can call
employees for one on one counseling and can let them know that this is a
temporary phase and if bright employees like them start leaving the
organizations like this, company may shut down their offices and can move
to some other place and ultimately the loss will be ours. We will loose on
opportunity and prosperity.
Behavioral
Trainings -
HR can arrange for behavioral trainings which
may help the employees to get out of this situation. This may be something
like motivation training, crisis management training, etc. These trainings
do magic in disguise.
Extra Benefits -
As per the basic definition of FBP (Flexi
Benefit Plans), these are such benefits which are not part of the
employee’s salary but are given through means other than cash. You can
arrange for a one day outing or can propose a plan for a company sponsored
trip to some tourist place for the best performing employee.
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Extra Security
Measures - HR should beef up the
security cover for the company premises by arranging for extra security
measures. This will help in building a good rapport of the company in
employee’s view and will improve the understanding of employee towards
company and hence will reduce the attrition factor. |
Now let’s turn the table and look towards the stake holders.
Normally, the first focus of this class is profit and then they consider
the aspects of the business.
Addressing the
stakeholders on the crisis may be a manner to convince, in such
a manner that they should be able to convince them on this temporary
phase of business. HR should convince the stake holders that the
company is ready for such crisis management and this disaster is
not such big that it can’t be handled. Also, HR can convince
that in spite of this crisis the work is not going to dip as
they have introduced such plans which will help in keeping the production
high and at the same time they will encourage the employees with
some small yet effective incentives. They can convince that these
incentives won’t put any extra pressure on the company’s budget.
Also, to ensure them about the security of the premises and also
to take out any worries about any legal complications, you can present
an improved security plan to them which may ensure a fool proof
protection. They won’t mind spending a bit extra to strengthen there
long running business.
As HR is the human face of any organization, the role of HR in
any such situation is very important. They
should be very careful about anything they do or say as even a small
mistake can lead to a complete misconception about the company policy
and trigger a chain reaction which may harm the company business.
So, in this time of crisis the HR department should extend their
helping and understanding hand towards the organization to make
the business run smoothly and also, lets don’t get panic and face
this situation boldly and BE ALERT AT ALL MOMENT OF TIME BECAUSE
WE ONLY CAN FIGHT SUCH SITUATIONS.
Contributing Writer: Rohit Minton
is working as Assistant HR in the Group HR department of the Amicorp
group. He has done his bachelors in Spanish Language and is now pursuing
his MBA in HRD.
minton.rohit@gmail.com +91 9845676315
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