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HR myths

Cat Jones

A lighthearted one for you all...

We've been recruiting a lot recently and a colleague in sales stated, "If we get more people in, you'll have to get a disabled person soon". He was under the impression that companies of a certain size MUST hire people with a disability. After pointing out that was totally untrue, we also had a positive conversation about disability is more than using a wheelchair...

What comments have you heard relating to HR that are totally not true?

Fake news? Fiction? Fantasy?

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  • in reply to Rosie

    Performance reviews cannot be carried out by HR, because HR Managers are not the ones seeing the "performance" or competent to assess it (except of those people within the HR department itself, of course). HR's role (as with all other aspects of "people management") is to manage "how" performance reviews and appraisals are carried out, so as to be objectively fair and effective.

    That process might be made futile by the inability of line managers to put HR-guided good-practices into effect, or a refusal by them to provide HR with the criteria of review or appraisal for guidance; to be discussed and determined (cooperatively though mutually shared information and understanding), but that is not an HR-created problem, it's a LM/OM one.

    The typical response of some people (and FT columnists) to something they don't understand: Reject it, demonise it, and if possible kill it!

    Turn the page and do the crossword instead......

  • in reply to Rosie

    @Rosie

    Is the volume of of "fake news" today conclusive proof that journalism no longer exists as a profession?

  • in reply to Peter
    Thanks Peter, it rubbed me up the wrong way earlier - your response is what I was thinking but you've articulated it perfectly :)