One of the other reasons.

HR professionals are generally not respected by outside professionals is that they can’t or won’t make a decision. They prefer a cover my assets routine. They take the safe route phone number library and rarely engage a new process. Unless they know their peers have successfully implemented the strategy over the past 25 years, they won’t take the risk. HR professionals also have misguided loyalty to habitual processes and external relationships. One HR Manager openly

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to her company’s current methods but, because they had dealt with the firm for the past 10 years, they did not want to change and offend them. Yes, loyalty is important but, when loyalty is keeping the organization from being the best it can be, loyalty is ill-placed. Do you wonder why there are few highly successful HR departments? Because they only do what the other HR professionals are doing and thus get the same mediocre results. HR needs to take responsibility and be held accountable for specific and measurable results, morale, and ROI -- not just "activity"

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department with no budget targets, expectations, or measurements. Yet arguably, HR, one of the most -- if not the most -- important functions in organizations is left to little or no accountability. Some might argue that there are benchmarks but, if those were working, why would we still have such low job satisfaction scores, morale, and productivity. Yes, the intent of this article is to stir up the pot but I am writing it more out of frustration -- the HR Profession simply does not get it.

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to really making a difference in millions of lives, many HR people are apathetic. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t detest HR. I detest the attitude of indifference and lack of responsibility, leadership, and vision of t

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to what it could and should be. There’s little honor in keeping the status quo if it’s not working. In the end, HR must be about people -- not systems or bureaucracy. That’s why CRG is dedicated to Enriching People’s Lives through the resources we provide to professionals and individuals.