Own the Position

If I had a thebe for the number of times I’ve heard a line manager say ‘it’s HR’, as a way of explaining to his or her team why there is a need to work overtime, or why there are no salary increases or bonus pay-outs, or why someone was not selected for appointment/promotion/training, or, more to the point, why there is a looming retrenchment.

The answer to the disgruntled individual or disengaged team is typically that ‘I don’t understand how these HR people do their things’, or ‘I have submitted this to HR and can’t understand why this is happening’, or ‘HR refused’.

The fact of the matter is that HR would not have made a unilateral decision without following due process, or outside normal consultative channels within the various relevant structures in the management team.

Editor's Comment
Closure as pain lingers

March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...

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