Comments on: Part 1….The Context Is Important…. https://vivekvsp.com/2010/08/part-1-the-context-is-important/ The Events in Human Resources and Employee Relations space, and in My World through my eyes. Wed, 29 Jun 2016 13:55:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: Reshmi https://vivekvsp.com/2010/08/part-1-the-context-is-important/#comment-3877 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:40:40 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/2010/08/part-1-the-context-is-important/#comment-3877 I really liked the last part "He said he appreciated that the company paid salary regularly on 7th day of each month without fail. I thought it was a kind of joke till I realised that his neighbours did not get their salaries regularly and that he was seeing their plight."… When we are reading this post we tend to think about factory & workers etc. But I would like to mention that this can be true for others too.

Why I am saying this is because I can relate to one such incident when I was working in an IT firm. During recession, many of my colleagues (including me) used to crib about the company declaring no pay hike for that year. People used to go to HR managers & confront them with all sorts of questions. My eyes opened when I came to know that many of my friends in other firms were actually not getting their salaries at regular times. There used to be postponement saying that company is not doing well right now & will pay in few weeks. Also there were salary cuts for many.

Many a times, such a thing like getting the salary in right time can be a big relief for many, like for people who plan their entire monthly expenses relying on that particular month's salary thats going to come. And we tend to classify such things as 'petty'& 'given'..

]]> By: Madhukar https://vivekvsp.com/2010/08/part-1-the-context-is-important/#comment-3880 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:49:39 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/2010/08/part-1-the-context-is-important/#comment-3880 Very true!… glad you wrote it.
I agree that what has got lost is the "context" of HR. Instead of "people/employee", now the context often is seen as the "business" (Ulrich's "business partner" was a very seductive phrase 🙂
Yawar is right about HR/IR shifting from "beings to "resource", and thus losing grounds.
Another issue I have pondered about (and then made my 'shift') was that somehow HR professionals look at Humans as "resources" only within the confines of organisational boundary. For a doctor, a disease is a disease whether s/he finds it his/her chamber or outside – "people issues" for HR professionals seem to cease to exist only within the confines of the corporate campuses…

]]> By: Yawar https://vivekvsp.com/2010/08/part-1-the-context-is-important/#comment-3881 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:35:01 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/2010/08/part-1-the-context-is-important/#comment-3881 Jayawant Nipurte's story is true and all too common. Neither extreme nor rare in India. HR must understand that people are human beings, not 'resources' which implies that somehow they are in common with financial, material and other resources – to be USED for the benefit of the organization. After all what do you do with resources? People are partners. They are collaborators, friends, companions. They cry, laugh and on occasion stand up to take the bullet for you. I have personally had the privilege of all these experiences from those who worked for me in the 16 years that I spent in manufacturing industry. It is when we remember who they are – what Vivek calls 'context' – that we truly see them for what they are. I have met Human Resources and they are me.

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