In 2017 Do We
Consider HR a Profession or Career?
13 February 2017
HR has come across
a lot of changes, updates, innovation and improvement in concepts, practices
and models. We can consider HR as ancient as human with different styles
depends on the time and circumstance and environment people dealing with at
that time, the shifting and attention HR gain during the past decades came from
the urgent understand of how to get the best out of people without making them
work themselves out or ending up losing their motivation and positivity to
develop and improve to match competition and changes in the environment. Today organization
pay more attention to HR role in the organization since it has the main
function that import the competencies needed and make the organization work in
harmony and provide the main capital (people) with the necessary motivation to
keep their positive performance. If we went years aback we can see that HR is a
place where anyone and everyone especially those who are not needed or need to
be punished work in HR because it was considered as a administration work,
today HR is considered to be a strategic function and partner in the
organization that’s why experts, competent and gurus people are wanted to be
working in HR, but with change a question must be asked do we consider HR a
career or profession?
Although this
question may be seen as not significant but it does has an important point to
be considered. If we looked to the definition of profession we will see many
who define it in a way or another but let us take this definition for now
"Profession is a an occupation where certain qualities, competencies and level
of expertise are known and needed to fill this job". For career we can
take this definition for now "An
occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with
opportunities for progress". If looked into these two definitions we can see that both
are applied to HR today, HR people need very high competencies, experience and
certain qualities so they can deliver the service for people on all levels to enable
them to provide the organization with the desired result of their performance,
this is fact that no one can deny anymore today about the HR people. But which
one is considered to be the HR representative in 2017.
In my work in
HR an training and development for the last ten years, my humble opinion if you
may let me say that both they do not represent HR in 2017, you will ask me how?
Well my answer will be because with the fact that acknowledged by organizations
today that HR has become a very recognized career and known profession they
both become part of the HR package for those who want to be in HR, but since
they are both can be obtained, learned and practice by people in my humble opinion
I can say that passion is what can represent HR in 2017. Why passion?
Dealing with
people today is not like decades ago where they work like slaves or work under
the rule of stay survive, people today have knowledge, experience,
qualification, professional certification they use technologies and they have
their own mind, decision, freedom, labor law that protect their rights and they
act an behave different than before because with the environment changes and complicated
people adopt and become changed and completed, for that dealing with people today need to understand
who their mind think and work, their values that drive their motives and
behaviors, their rules of right and wrong, their personality and so on, by
known all this HR people can take the right decision, action and rules
regarding motivation, performance management, remuneration, organization
culture and other HR service that will bring the best out of the people to
serve the organization, by known what make them click HR people can save on the
organization a lot of losses, money wasted and time by taking the wrong action
to bring the best out of people.
So what does
this has to do with passion? When we talk about passion its normally and
internal motivation towards doing something which is not very easy to teach,
learn or practice, although it might be obtained and adopted or awaken in some
people but its easy to get passion people for HR and work on them to take it as
a career then profession than do it the other way, this will save lot of work, conflict
and it will work out sooner in the end, for example you can have a guru HR professional
working for and inexperience HR specialist with passion, you will be surprised
that the inexperience will try hard and his best to come out with solution to
serve the people in organization even if the law is not supporting it while the
guru and professional doesn’t do that, why because of passion and with time the
one who will be consider guru profession
is the inexperience specialist that work on serving people and provide the best
for them to get them best from them, because he will always work to improve his
competencies and expertise to serve the people with quality and humanity as he
can.
HR is a
continues filed that will never stop surprising us with new advancement,
improvement, upgraded and innovative concepts, models and practices as long as
human are living on this earth HR will be as well.
Mohamed
Alzayani
Assoc.CIPD and
Assoc.IHRME for human capital development
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