Learn from the best : HRM

Human resource management (HRM) is a difficult task to achieve whether you’re a small business or a highly functioning start-up, but it gets a whole lot irksome when you are in-charge of a global company. From its inception, every company has established and developed its dynamic yet persistent set of principles and objectives. In today’s world where HR dominates all major force fields in the market, it’s better to learn from the best. With open-door policies and rigid feedback systems, HRM is definitely moving in the right direction. But how far do the conventional methods take you?

Don’t worry, market giants are here to save the damsels in distress. Quicken Loans has a quirky way of cheering up the employees’ day with brightly lit and colourful environment to offer. FedEx, Eileen Fisher opt for extensive training to provide better service to the employees as well as the consumers. Hilcorp offers mentorship to new trainees that instils harmony, fraternity and team spirit. BT believes in retaining, retraining and redeploying employees to earn expertise in every sector at exponentially lower costs while increasing employee morale.

Twitter follows the trend of creating a work-life balance into the lives of its staffs. SAS has to offer a complete university feel, complete with greenways that connect buildings and fitness and health facilities, all to promote the “learning experience”. Google, awarded as the best company to work with, has a Mountain View, California headquarters that offers a seven-acre sports complex, three wellness centres along with, you wouldn’t believe- indoor roller hockey rinks, horseshoe pits, and over 100,000 hours of subsidized massages doled out each year!

But when it comes to being an expert and breaking all bounds, Zappos has been rumoured to have dumped all the job titles to uproot hierarchy and inculcate Holacracy, a system that distributes power to all its staff members. While giant corps like Facebook and Dropbox use searchlight meetings as a sourcing approach to finding new talent. They are short, informal and fun meetings where employees make hiring suggestions to the HR staff.

With thining walls and blurring lines, who knows what the HR industry has to offer!

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