Why We Hate HR

While the title of this article may or may not be tongue-in-cheek, Keith H. Hammonds makes some thought-provoking arguments about the role human resource (HR) officers should be playing at their companies. Employees are often unhappy with their company’s HR department. Instead of being strategic partners in their employers’ businesses and supporting talented employees, HR professionals concentrate on purely administrative tasks. But is that really their job description or, as Hammond suggests, are they just not qualified to do more? getAbstract recommends this sobering yet fascinating analysis to anyone working in the field of human resources.