I don't know when it started, there was a crooked wind in the HR circle, and when I said how to do HR well, I said that I had to understand the business.
It seems that as soon as it understands business, HR immediately changes its personality, instantly changing itself from an ordinary person to Ultraman, and hr to understand business has become a panacea. If you dare to say that HR does not understand business, you will be sprayed to death, because it is very unpolitical correct.
To be honest, I don't want to catch up with this fashion, and I am very dismissive of the idea that people are following the crowd.
Someone asked me if I understood business, I would tell him directly, I don't understand business, although I have been working for many years in other jobs than HR, I still don't understand business, and I only know half of human resources, and I dare not become an expert.
For the kind of HR that claims to know business, I always have a curious attitude to understand, but in the end it always disappoints me.
Let's take a look at these so-called understanding of business, how do you understand the law? And take a look at these representative remarks:
"To understand the business is to combine the company's situation, otherwise, how to set up a reasonable organizational structure?" How to recruit the right talent for key positions? How to establish a suitable compensation performance system? Understanding the company's business is to do a better job in human resource management, so as to do a good job in manpower protection and system guarantee for the company's business development. ”
At first glance, this is very correct, but people with a little logic know that this is the right nonsense and empty words, and it has nothing to do with understanding the business, and there is no relevance.
"If HR does not know its own company's business, in terms of personnel structure, personnel planning, performance and other aspects can not find the direction, I myself from the company salesman to HR, so if there is a business and human resources intersection, I can basically give advice at the first time."
This view does not say how to understand business? Just a general statement of the company's business, and do not understand whether there is nothing to do with it, as for the conversion from salesman to HR, it can only be said that most of the salesmen are not very competent, otherwise how can they "fall" to this point?
There is also a view that:
"Understanding and specialization are two different things, the more advanced HR has the ability to penetrate the business."
This is even less convincing, there is no evidence that the more advanced HR understands business, models, methodologies and other framework things, many of which are universal, do not show that they understand business and business details better.
There are many similar views, and I will not refute them one by one.
I still have that view, the boss positioned you is to do a good job of human resources, not to let you do a good job.
You say that you want to understand the company's business, that is actually not called "understanding", at most it can only be said to be understood and familiar, and there is still a big gap from understanding.
If you really understand business, why don't you just do business? People do business annual salary of millions, you do HR annual salary of 100,000, put high salary do not pursue, to meet the current nine to five, this is not stupid or lazy!
Therefore, don't easily say that you understand business, and don't think that HR can really understand business.
I recruit HR, never recruit the kind of HR who claims to understand the business, but the kind of person who is skilled in the business of HR itself, for example, let him design an evaluation form, do an interview evaluation, calculate the labor cost, analyze the manpower recruitment needs... These people who are very familiar with each other are the HR I want.
Don't engage in those who are vain and understand with their mouths, in fact, they don't understand the most.