Teamwork and Communication Waning
You never call. We never talk.
Second Law of HR Dynamics
You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
– Cecil Baxter
That quote could a variant of the Second Law of HR Dynamics. I’ve been talking a lot lately about what happens when we implement HR policies. Sure, we clean up one area, but do we dirty something else? What happens when we write a policy that says employees can’t take partial sick days? Does that make sick day occurrences go down? Or what happens when we put in one of those 70-30-10 performance plans that kicks the bottom 10% of employees out of the company each year? Are the 10% who go the worst 10%? (Don’t get me started on performance management processes…not on Monday morning.)
Think before you act. That’s what my dad used to say to me. What else he should have said was, “Think 10 steps ahead.” The Second Law of HR Dynamics is, “The acceleration of an unintended consequence depends on the net popularity of a program and how long it’s been around.” Take away a “little” gainsharing program that’s been around 30 years and find out what I mean. And fast.
HR Hint: Don’t Mess with Daycare
Google did. Now the bloom is off the rose.
Sometimes HR Should Be About People…and Joy
Every once in a while in HR, we need to step back and remember that, like Soylent Green, it’s about the people. This video can remind us of that.
Read the back story, it’s well worth it. (One extra little thing…go to the YouTube site to see this and watch the High Res version. It’s even better.)
It Ain’t About the Tsotschkes
Bill Strahan at Human Markets wrote a great piece today titled Before the Tee Shirts. The lead in to his Top 10 list knocked me out:
Here is my list of ten things that you should have in the work place before you fire up the silk screen.
My favorite is #7, which begins, “Pay competitively, reward success lavishly.” Put that one in your pipe and smoke it.
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