Bad HR Practices

Hi,

Being in HR i would say the bad HR practices are:-

Not working on the feedbacks given by the employees about their problems or regarding anything.

Not working on employee’s development or in other ways to not trying to work out different options for employee development.

And not trying new and different ideas to motivate employees.

Regards,

Rohini.

According to me this is the worst thing which can happen in an organisation. Today companies consider employees as their assets and even then the HR practices which deals with them and their needs are not transparent. Appraisals/layoffs are not backed up with proper reasons.

hi,

I am Richa. Yes, I 100% support that not working on the given feedback lead to BAd HR practices because 1) u will be ignorant from current employees prefrences. 2) New strategies requirements. 3) where u need to change. 4) R employees facing any difficulty in their carrier growth.

More over, Ignorance in the Employee's Development and Motivation lead to 1) Non attachment with the company. 2) Lack in the Creative and new ideas to make the work more efficiently. 3) Lack of updation in their projects. 4) Most imporant, it Limits the employee's Carrier growth and Company's growth.

I am not an HR person. But experienced something really bad in my last interview 2 years back. I would not like to name the company here but it's among the top MNCs where people actually like to work. After clearing 2 technical interview rounds, 1 managerial interview (the manager was convinced to an extent with my 3 interview performance, that he almost told me that I am in, HR round would just be a formality) and 1 HR interview round.

I was confident and convinced enough by my performance so far. But the last round looked like the interviewer had certain attitude problems. I was continuously trying to make an eye contact with the HR fellow, but apart from having an initial handshake I didn't really realize that he was even bothered to listen what I was speaking. He was mostly busy with his laptop and a cup of coffee during the 2 minutes discussion we had. From his gestures and posture the only thing I could make out was that he was internally backed by a feeling of having an authority to offer me the job. After this incident I was disappointed to an extent that I owed not to knock the doors of that organization again.

I don't know if there are some rules & regulations to actually assess if the person responsible for recruiting is actually doing the right thing, but yes that day he actually degraded his and his organizations respect in my eyes and off course they lost one right candidate due to him.

It is said that the boss is always right but when we see a boss doing all the wrong things (including unethical things) there is very little a subordinate can do

An employee feels let down if his review does not take place at the scheduled month or is not given a scheduled period of review. It surely dampens his spirit and enthrusiasm and may result in low productivity and lack of concentration.

Some of the Bad Practices of our HR (Domestic) in my view is :

1) Underestimating the low and average performers 

2) Being regardless to the entry level and contract staff

3) Bottom line is always treated as a bottom line

4) Functional/vertical heads are given undue weigtage for their position not contribution

5) Hiring of the top level recruitments from a coffeeshop to telecom, telecom to retail, medical to it/ites, infra to bpo/kpo, banking to insurance, insurance to electronics and so on,

6) Promotions on personal choices, not on performance

7) Undertreat the non-revenue generating departments or functions (service or help desk, training)

8) Delay in taking decisions for recognitions

9) Untimely, undue celebrations and get togethers

10) Feel sorry when the potential employ joins the competition

Only Preaching not Doing the same.

Only Strategy formulation no Execution.

HR is not only a function, it involves understanding Organisational and Human behavior.

Bad HR practices

Also include myopic attitude towards Employee problems, a few others are:-

No proper performance review machineries

Failure in updating employees about their performance and conducting a gap analysis to identify training needs.

Absence of clear job description & information on Key Result Areas

Lack of regular assessment of HR systems and its effectiveness and no recommendations to the Management to change obsolete policies and norms

And finally lack of impartiality in making recommendations

EmpXtrack blogger has published a list of bad hr practices prevalent in organizations.

Click here to read more about Top Ten Bad HR Practices

I think the organizations in India are not sensitized to the inclusiveness and diversity issues as the organizations in US are.

According to me,company will grow when employer should treat employee equal then only company will grow

According to me,company will grow when employer should treat employee equal then only company will grow

Getting influenced by the placement agencies and earning some money.

We often find that the HR does not hold any training for defining the expectations of the company from the employee regarding his role and specific area of operations. Some time the employee has to report to multiple bosses with multiple ideas often contradicting each other. Sometimes the employee falls a victim to the cross fire of his bosses. Hence the HR should have clear cut definitions of responisibilities so that such situations are avoided and the employee get a clear path to perform.

Surprisingly, I find singular lack of knowledge (I am not sure how it can but, but it may be pretense) of Indian Labor laws among the HR, who are supposed to be it's guardians in any organization.