Most HR Managers in my clime do not know the difference between Employee Relations and Industrial Relations.
One yardstick for identifying irresponsible managements is their response to Trade Union movement.
Irresponsible managements pay lip service to the dictum that their most important resource is their people but do not wish to see union activities in their organizations.
Out of fear based on lack of understanding, some HR Managers let their let branch union executives get away with blue murder.
Some HR Managers fail to understand that their employees in branch union executives are not the Union.
In one place I worked, some branch union executives put themselves into full time unionism thereby abandoning their duties but at the end of the appraisal exercise asked for salary increment.
In another place, the branch executives asked for promotion for an industrial accident victim who was performing a non-technical job.
Some HR Managers behave as if there would be no industrial harmony without the branch union executives having a free reign.
Most wicked, callous and irresponsible managements do not know that the union cannot stop her from doing the right things for all stakeholders in the organization.
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