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HR MISTAKES BY YOURS TRULY 1

 In discussing HR MISTAKES by yours truly, the necessary starting point should be the establishment of ATTITUDE to life generally and work in particular.

Attitude is not inherited but acquired through learning and experience by massive exposure.

Decisions are based on the attitude of the decision maker to the issue at stake. Please refer to my earlier content on "Decision Making:A Strategy For Development" in 2023.

All the HR MISTAKES I made were all based on my attitude to life issues generally and work in particular.

A few of my attitude based decision will suffice.

- Truth is sacrosanct. If it is not the truth, it cannot be the truth.

- Integrity. If you cannot do it, do not say it. Very many people substitute Integrity with Rigidity.

- Covenant breakers are not human beings but animals.

- Liars are dogs.

- Do not work for people/Companies who do not pay salaries as at when due.

- Annual leave is non-negotiable.

- The rule must be applied to all with very few exceptions. The exceptions can never be the rule.

- Decisions must remain unchanged until all the parties to the decision are carried along.

- Absolute respect for the Law while it subsists.

- The right to disobey unlawful and unreasonable instructions.

- A manager must stand with the employee and the outcome of his instruction to the employee.

- You cannot delegate without responsible supervision. Delegation without supervision is abdication.

- No room for micromanagement by supervisor.

- Nobody has a monopoly of knowledge.

- What makes a gentleman is the ability to accept his mistakes and ready to make amend..

For the remaining weeks of February and probably March, I shall share with you some of my mistakes that cost yours truly many jobs positions my absolute belief in Job Hopping notwithstanding.

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