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Employees’ Grievances Against and Within HR – Part II – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1032 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1032 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing our contributions here. Credit: Mikhail Nilov Credit: Thirdman Credit: Vlada Karpovich Preamble In the last post, I gave a broad review of employees’ grievances against HR. In this post, I shall present the viewpoint of HR on the situation. This is not exactly ‘Shikwah (grievance)’ and ‘Jawab e Shikwah (counter-grievance)’, but rather ‘Shikwah dar Shikwah’. It is so because HR has its own side to tell what makes their job tougher by the day. HR Position in the Corporate HR gained much significance during the last decades. It evolved and took hold of the entire organization. Some years ago, HR reigned supreme, and HR Heads were dreaded by the line managers in many ...

Employees’ Grievances Against and Within HR – Part I – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1031 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1031 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing our contributions here. Credit: Andrea Piacquadio Credit: Craig Adderley Credit: Yan Krukau This topic was triggered by an article in New York Times. Link at the end. Preamble In this two-part series, I shall talk about employees’ grievances about HR department/ Team/ Function. The employees in any corporate hold a load of complaints against HR, while HR employees themselves have complaints against other corporate employees and management. It appears that both parties are unhappy. In this mini-series, I shall take up grievances that corporate employees carry against HR in part I, and the grievances of HR employees against corporate staff in Part II. Birth of HR (th...