There are many companies that lose daily leadership and competitiveness in the market, because they have inadequate or outdated organizations they create a drag on its profitability and negatively impact both the development and motivation of the people who make . It increased by executives or managers who seek only their own benefit and development, no matter the organization or its Human Capital, creating discrimination and conflicts with rules and requirements to others in a coercive and punitive. However, autoexoneran of themselves and others to promote high compliance, seeking to impose their formal authority and treat their employees as a disposable resource which only serves to exploit and achieve their personal goals.
Do not understand that Human Capital, Human Resources poorly known, is the most important thing an organization as it is their lifeblood. A company may have the best infrastructure, technology, industrial plant, or the latest equipment but not enough to continue and have a guarantee of success in the market. Only people with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and skills are able to promote or destroy an organization, therefore, its significance is invaluable.
“Managers and management researchers have long been the assumption that organizational goals are unattainable unless
there is a permanent commitment of the members of the organization. Motivation is a feature of human psychology that contributes to the degree of commitment of the person. “
Now, according to the dictionary, which means Resources: pl. Goods, facilities or wealth. Set of resources available to meet a need or carry out a business. Natural resources, water, forestry, economic, human.
Then, when the company considers humans as resources, are considering the same plan as their property, their possessions (wealth) or as a means to achieve their personal goals.
Like any resource, human resources are likely to be counted, measured, weighed, checked and used like any other property or means of the company, ie a rational, objective and impersonal.
Peter Senge, the creator of the Fifth Discipline and known guru of organizational learning, became immensely popular thanks to a revolutionary who chose the Harvard Business Review in 1997 as one of the most influential texts of the past two decades: The Fifth Discipline (1990).
In this book are ten recipes to be a good executive. On the contrary, it offers a new way (and a new language) to think about organizations. Previously, organizations were thought to consist of parts and machines that could be isolated from each other. The phenomena were studied in isolation and partial.
Senge, who introduced the concepts of “system thinking”, “learning organization” and “learning organization”, defines itself as an “anti-human resources” and defines it as “carcinogenic” the current policy followed by companies and states that employers should include investments in the environment and society as part of its value chain. Senge said: – I never considered that the term “human resources” was correct. It is not very significant, because people are not resources for the organization, are “the” organization. For example, you are not a “resource” of his family, but a member of it. If it was just a resource, their families would see as a source of money or anything else. In short, “resource” is very limited. –
Given this, the professionals know that the resources have a cost, profitability, are exploitable and submissive to the economic calculations as the financial, technical and material of the company.
“Do not let anyone say something is too competitive. Once you reduce the people who work very hard and people are not as good as you, your competition is drastically reduced. (Maggie Mason).
So, consider humans as resources leads us to consider our relationship with them from a legal perspective, and not moral or real, and we know that there are two views are not always the same, or similar.
“In the whole universe of God there are two souls alike. No two have the same work in their lives. There are two talents that are competing or conflicting. This thought should end once and for all to envy of life. Each human soul can say that is unique worldwide in all age groups, there never was nor will there be anyone like me. “
As a resource, then humans do not feel, not think, not motivated, do not develop, or considered, are goods and means used to achieve our ends or goals. For me this approach has a serious taste of obsolete, to post Taylorism “or not?. We can ask if known by some employees or employees of companies today, identify or feel as a means to serve the objectives of industrial managers or owners.
The story goes that when Cicero plebeians seceded from the patricians and took refuge in the Roman Palatine Hill, told them the story of the limbs and stomach. He explained that the stomach would die if members were to stop collecting and bring food, but members also die if the stomach does not transform these foods into energy. Cicero showed them the interdependence and symbiotic relationships in which one can develop without the other’s existence. To be more illustrative is the comment:
The stomach and members of the body in the fight
One day his left hand he confided to his right hand:
– Look, we work all day, while the stomach does not do anything.
The legs listened and said:
– You’re right, we too are tired walking all day to buy food to the stomach and he just eats without doing anything to get it.
The right hand shouted:
– Let’s strike, did not give food to the stomach. Let him work it out if you like.
Then spoke the stomach:
– Friends, you are thinking wrong. Our jobs and skills are very different, but the truth is that we depend so much from each other.
Arms suddenly shouted:
– Shut up. These are the arguments of a bum. From now on you will not eat anything, absolutely anything.
A few days passed.
– Oh, how weak I am! “Complained one arm to another.
– I do not know how tired I am …
The legs complained:
– We can move just us.
And all the body parts saying the same thing. Everyone felt faint.
Then the stomach spoke:
– I also feel weak. If you feed me I can work again and you and I feel better.
– Well, it’s worth trying, “said the right hand.
And the legs with difficulty took the body to the table, hands cooperated and put the food in your mouth.
After a while the hands exclaimed:
– I feel better.
All members of the body said the same.
Then they understood that all members of the body must cooperate if they are kept in good health. And he understood the stomach depends on the work of members and should be shared equally with all members coming to him.
The story, for readers who wish, is given in Morales Selected Fables of Jean de La Fontaine.
The value of people is irreplaceable and its impact on businesses is paramount. Today when a company is public or private, speaks of Human Resources, should be named as its Human Capital, its strategic partner and if not urgently need a modern Cicero, who could argue conclusively that the property business and employees are actually partners in the business. The capital could be described as analogy to the stomach needs so much to all staff members and their interaction, as is true of mutual respect and dependence.
Keep in mind that people are not an instrument of the organization, but form the organization. The organization does not have people but that is made up of people.
Do not … Care … Respect your Human Capital
Focusing on the change of perspective should be formalized in a new name for the function. We could stop erroneously called Human Resources, we should speak of Human Affairs and Human Management and this, in turn, would lead us to rethink whether the title of Director or Manager of
Human Resources is correct. I leave two questions:
Is going to a partner, or collaborate and negotiate with him? “
Is it a Capital Appeal or a
“The primary means of production in the global village is the human brain …”
“Global demand will be redirected to products which are increasingly knowledge-intensive rather than matter.”
“The competitive advantages will be worth less than the dreams of a butterfly if you do not incorporate knowledge.” (The talent moves the capital: Funky Business).
Based on “The Human Resources is not Michel Henric-Coll (www.nexohumano.es)
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