Tuesday 2 February 2021

The Myth! Incentives and Salary: Human Resources Management


It is often said " In tough times, you know your friends and foes both". All of us have been through a hell of a tough time, look around you! You will see the pain and gain of the people. Some are fighting to live and others fighting to die. Although I am neither a scholar nor I know the "much" about Human resources Management.

The questions which is bothering me for a quiet sometime now - Does the Increase in the salary/ incentives increase the overall engagement and happiness of an employee ? Many would agree and very less of you may think it doesn't? . An org can be big and rich in all means but still Employee's may not be happy/ Engaged! So what are we trying to achieve? Are we copying the so called "Stick and Carrot" model of Performance Management and creating absolute unhappy workforce? Time to Ponder!!

Many researchers have argued time and time again it doesn't ?.Happiness/ Engagement is always difficult to measure"?.... But it does give some insight about the kind of culture we are living in and our vision of creating a happy and healthy organization. As a leader - leading an organization, it is imperative that we are wise in analyzing our actions in the process of creating a happy and healthy organization. In this busy world we may not have enough time to debate but I m going to talk about two key ways in which you can create a Happy Organization.

Create Continues Learning Culture: Most out of HR or T & D leaders have great insight and they can talk about creating a great culture in length. Trust me my boy! I have never seen any with some learning culture!!. In my experience and opinion the word it-self makes them feel uncomfortable because it's a lot of hard-work.... which Ironically HR teams are not very well known for..... Sorry!

Meritocracy:  Well! Well! Well ! This is a daisy world and there are too many fishy things happening in the world of politics and in the org. When was the last you really promoted a skilled guy? I wonder, trust me 99% of orgs do not have a methodology where they promote skilled/competent people. But you got me with your values " Meritocracy" , honestly are you kidding!!

I guess that's all to start the year with a brand new smile! as they say - keeping sharing and learning.. Until next time - So long so....


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