HR Magic Wand
At our most recent seminar, we asked attendees to write down one answer to the following question:
If you could wave a magic wand and change one thing about HR or employment law, what would it be?
We got a wide variety of interesting (and emotion-packed, with lots of exclamation points, capital letters and underlining) responses. Here were the most common and/or compelling:
- HR would be viewed in a more strategic light and have more influence
- managers would actually listen to HR
- managers would follow company policies and procedures
- managers would handle easy issues themselves instead of escalating them to HR
- diversity would be easier to achieve and maintain
- execs would understand the impact to the bottom line of leaders who ignore employee issues
- execs would recognize that many disputes can be resolved easily if management is less focused on $$$ and more focused on creating a positive, healthy work environment
- leadership would be less controlling so that employees can do their jobs
- HR training would be remembered more than five seconds after it’s over
- employees would be treated with more fairness and consistency
- the law would have fewer unreasonable restrictions, change less frequently and be less complicated
- the judicial process would move more quickly
- lawsuits would be unlawful
- nothing — it keeps work interesting and me on my toes
Any of these resonate with you? Anything you’d like to add? Anyone have a magic wand?
