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HR is your business partner. You can be friends, as long as you are able to keep business separate from friendship. And stopping yourself, when the friendship e

by andix 4y ago

HR is your business partner. You can be friends, as long as you are able to keep business separate from friendship. And stopping yourself, when the friendship exposes too much that influences the business. I think business follows some very clear rules, compared to friendship. It’s always about money. The decision is always in the direction that is the cheapest and brings the most profit. Friendship can help there, if some options are equally priced, then the friend may be chosen, because of the friendship. I think employees have a very powerful position, once they realize that. Replacing someone can cost up to 6 monthly salaries (fees for headhunters, trainings, …). If you find out where the tipping point is, you can negotiate better. It’s also important to highlight your employers benefits if you want something. In corporations then currency is quite often not just money, but influence and power. A lot of managers decide based on what will give them more power. If you play along, they may give you much more money/benefits.

t43562 4y ago
Cheapest/most profit as the ultimate goal is potentially a cultural thing - long term versus short term benefit might be valued more e.g. in Japan. and less in e.g. the US or the UK. What you say about the cost of replacing people IS the argument I used for getting one of my team a raise. There's no doubt it's very time consuning and difficult to get suitable new people and well worth the small amount this one wanted. Now that I'm on the other side of the line I can see that one doesn't want to hire people who are going to fight you all the time or (even worse) fight everyone else and cause trouble. Bad/good as that may be .....
- andix 4y ago
  Short or long term profit is a cultural thing, even some companies value the one over the other. There are also companies, that will never pay any employee more then the industry average. Those are factors that need to be considered. About people who fight, that's often really hard to judge. In some companies this is how change happens, and it's appreciated in the end (or not).

by andix 4y ago

t43562 4y ago

Cheapest/most profit as the ultimate goal is potentially a cultural thing - long term versus short term benefit might be valued more e.g. in Japan. and less in e.g. the US or the UK. What you say about the cost of replacing people IS the argument I used for getting one of my team a raise. There's no doubt it's very time consuning and difficult to get suitable new people and well worth the small amount this one wanted. Now that I'm on the other side of the line I can see that one doesn't want to hire people who are going to fight you all the time or (even worse) fight everyone else and cause trouble. Bad/good as that may be .....

andix 4y ago
Short or long term profit is a cultural thing, even some companies value the one over the other. There are also companies, that will never pay any employee more then the industry average. Those are factors that need to be considered. About people who fight, that's often really hard to judge. In some companies this is how change happens, and it's appreciated in the end (or not).