Are we really only ‘Human Resources’?
Why are we struggling so much to keep our bright young things? Why do all our efforts aimed at coaching and mentoring programmes just not seem to produce the benefits we hoped for? Why is our BEE programme failing? Where are the supposed results that our team building sessions would have delivered? We have the latest state-of-the-art performance management, job evaluation and incentive systems but still it feels as if motivation is lacking! Why pay so much for all these HR stuff when it doesn’t really work??
In last month’s e-zine Keith Coates touched on a very hot topic: Why, in a world where harnessing people’s full potential has become more crucial for business success than ever before, have HR Departments become more irrelevant than ever? Keith explored the fact that we are rapidly moving into a business environment that increasingly puts emphasis on who we are, rather than what we sell � meaning that the business that can most effectively attract, develop, nurture and retain talent, will have a definite edge. But why, then, is it still so difficult for us to manage our ‘human resources’?
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