Dear Sweta,
She should wait and watch, sometime situations will go against the person. Being a HR Manager she should try to understand the problem and face the situation occured after some I am sure her boss will automatically mould.
Regards,
Ajay Sharma
Dy Manager (HR & Admn)
+919929598838
From India, Jaipur
She should wait and watch, sometime situations will go against the person. Being a HR Manager she should try to understand the problem and face the situation occured after some I am sure her boss will automatically mould.
Regards,
Ajay Sharma
Dy Manager (HR & Admn)
+919929598838
From India, Jaipur
First of all, I wish your friend 'a good luck' with the facts you shared.
Below are the facts I observed from the thread (correct me if i am mistaken on any!)
A ITES company in Medical transcription whose 'Indian' branch has more than 150 employees (I assume there are more branches overseas). Your friend is working as HR Manager with atleast one HR executive reporting to her. She is having 5+ years of experiance and nearly 2 years of working with current organisation. The immediate manager is a 'Male' having no professional degree in HR and that he is a 'veteran employee' of the organisation. Your friend reports to Head of India business (profit center head)
So, we are talking about three people ... the Profit center head (or Boss), your friend and the HR executive (or reportee).
The boss is acting in a way which is reculting in rift between your friend and her reportee... or she has lost face in front of her team because of some action of her boss. (refer to the incident of resignation by reportee..)
Your friend is pally with reportee and at a bay's distance from the boss.
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I feel your friend is lacking conviction here. When she took the resignation from her reportee, the boss should not have overruled her. She should have refuted with the boss and taken one on one then and there...
The very fact that the boss proved her 'wrong' in one on one session and cornered her reveals that
a) Either she took the resignation of her reportee with mis-intentions
b) or She was not able to defend her decision to sack the executive in question or she has not taken the superiors in confidence before taking this step.
If Heads have asked her to do so, then she would not landed in this situation. Ideally, she should have sent an email to the reportee asking for resignation with a CC to boss, just to keep him also in loop. It seems the boss simply refused to accept that he instructed her to do.
A 150 employee profit center will behave in a similar way as a SME will behave where everything is centralised at top (usually one man show). The responsibility is decentralised while decision making is not.
Your friend has limited or no access to top and for all practical purposes the 'boss' is the final word.
Now, she is tensed as she feels she is not needed in organisation anymore.
She used to trust him and now he is a snob :)
This happens at almost every work place. Your boss is an ideal one till the day he shouts at you and puts you in a tight situation. Yes, the boss in question is not a good people manager. He should not have acted the way he did in the incident you shared. But he is a good profit center head as he is with the organisation for past 8 years.
Remember, this is not a unique situation. 80 out of 100 professionals have tough bosses and they leave job anticipating a better boss... and land up with a tougher one. This is a never ending story.
In my opinion the solution lies in understanding that the boss is also a Human being who is struggling to Perform in this performance based 'corporate' world... afterall you and your friend will also like to grow up the corporate ladder.
One think is clear if she feels down and unvaluable for the organisation... it is the time to change ... for her own good. No need to dig reasons.
If she acknowledges that the boss had good business intentions and there will be personal growth if she continues ... and she is not sitting idle... she should not change... as she will land up at similar profile and similar package (courtsey the recession) thereby hitting her career growth plans.
As they say... "Life is all about choosing between options. These options will make your destiny and your destiny enforces the choice of options" :icon1:
cheers
Saurabh
From India, New Delhi
4Below are the facts I observed from the thread (correct me if i am mistaken on any!)
A ITES company in Medical transcription whose 'Indian' branch has more than 150 employees (I assume there are more branches overseas). Your friend is working as HR Manager with atleast one HR executive reporting to her. She is having 5+ years of experiance and nearly 2 years of working with current organisation. The immediate manager is a 'Male' having no professional degree in HR and that he is a 'veteran employee' of the organisation. Your friend reports to Head of India business (profit center head)
So, we are talking about three people ... the Profit center head (or Boss), your friend and the HR executive (or reportee).
The boss is acting in a way which is reculting in rift between your friend and her reportee... or she has lost face in front of her team because of some action of her boss. (refer to the incident of resignation by reportee..)
Your friend is pally with reportee and at a bay's distance from the boss.
----
I feel your friend is lacking conviction here. When she took the resignation from her reportee, the boss should not have overruled her. She should have refuted with the boss and taken one on one then and there...
The very fact that the boss proved her 'wrong' in one on one session and cornered her reveals that
a) Either she took the resignation of her reportee with mis-intentions
b) or She was not able to defend her decision to sack the executive in question or she has not taken the superiors in confidence before taking this step.
If Heads have asked her to do so, then she would not landed in this situation. Ideally, she should have sent an email to the reportee asking for resignation with a CC to boss, just to keep him also in loop. It seems the boss simply refused to accept that he instructed her to do.
A 150 employee profit center will behave in a similar way as a SME will behave where everything is centralised at top (usually one man show). The responsibility is decentralised while decision making is not.
Your friend has limited or no access to top and for all practical purposes the 'boss' is the final word.
Now, she is tensed as she feels she is not needed in organisation anymore.
She used to trust him and now he is a snob :)
This happens at almost every work place. Your boss is an ideal one till the day he shouts at you and puts you in a tight situation. Yes, the boss in question is not a good people manager. He should not have acted the way he did in the incident you shared. But he is a good profit center head as he is with the organisation for past 8 years.
Remember, this is not a unique situation. 80 out of 100 professionals have tough bosses and they leave job anticipating a better boss... and land up with a tougher one. This is a never ending story.
In my opinion the solution lies in understanding that the boss is also a Human being who is struggling to Perform in this performance based 'corporate' world... afterall you and your friend will also like to grow up the corporate ladder.
One think is clear if she feels down and unvaluable for the organisation... it is the time to change ... for her own good. No need to dig reasons.
If she acknowledges that the boss had good business intentions and there will be personal growth if she continues ... and she is not sitting idle... she should not change... as she will land up at similar profile and similar package (courtsey the recession) thereby hitting her career growth plans.
As they say... "Life is all about choosing between options. These options will make your destiny and your destiny enforces the choice of options" :icon1:
cheers
Saurabh
From India, New Delhi
Dear Swetha,
As far as to my view is being concerned the person shoul;d quit the job and label himself as a kind of escapism factor hidden inside him.Whereas make the boss understand trust worthy with employees.
And moreover for ur information these politics are common and will chase u wherever u work under someone.
1.look before u leap
2.work more talk less
when u do these things and be very careful in speaking with others and also relate to othet people coversation and trace it and then come to conclusion
A.ROBERT MARIA VINCENT,M.D.
Roby Institute of Soft Skill Education
09894853480
As far as to my view is being concerned the person shoul;d quit the job and label himself as a kind of escapism factor hidden inside him.Whereas make the boss understand trust worthy with employees.
And moreover for ur information these politics are common and will chase u wherever u work under someone.
1.look before u leap
2.work more talk less
when u do these things and be very careful in speaking with others and also relate to othet people coversation and trace it and then come to conclusion
A.ROBERT MARIA VINCENT,M.D.
Roby Institute of Soft Skill Education
09894853480
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