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I think the reason is that HR is similar to IT and QA - if they do their job right, it's like they're doing nothing at all. My guess is that "Thank God HR was
by omegaham 8y ago
I think the reason is that HR is similar to IT and QA - if they do their job right, it's like they're doing nothing at all.
My guess is that "Thank God HR was on top of that problem" is not a common phrase in meetings. Neither is "Wow, HR did a fantastic job creating that job posting, and every single candidate that they've brought in has been at least plausible." If they aren't braindead, you just take them for granted.
Systems like that tend to get neglected.
- halbritt 8y agoThe role of HR is to shield the company from liability.
- thwarted 8y agoThe role of IT and QA is also to shield the company from all kinds of liability: legal, process, financial, failures, continuity, etc.
- jiveturkey 8y agoonly incidentally. whereas it is literally HR’s job.
- jlawson 8y agoCome on, be fair. There are tons of administrative tasks that HR takes care of that have nothing to do with liability.
- jiveturkey 8y agosure. those are the incidental parts of their job.
- joshuamorton 8y agoDeciding on compensation structure, recruiting/hiring, and handling things like leave, benefits etc. Can all, depending on the company, fall under the purview of HR. None are primarily to protect the company from liability. There are certainly some parts of the job primarily about avoiding liability but, as go said, that's true for many swes too.
- jiveturkey 8y agocompensation structure is decided by the c suite, or can be. if decided by HR it’s just a convenient delegation of research work. recruiting is a separate function from HR. even in medium sized companies this is is visible in the reporting chain. the other things are all outsourceable and these days they are except for large companies and older companies with inertia. the one thing that isn’t outsourceable or trivially reassigned is liability. That is HR’s core competency, if you will.