HR Fragmentation - A reason for Worry for HR & Companies, Equally !
On the periphery of a business stands HR. Its birth is circumstantial. Richard Arkwright, who is widely considered as the father of the modern factory system, did not conceive a place for today’s HR. He and other entrepreneurs of the day were only interested in people who were directly helping them in meeting the demand of the time. Later came in picture, a person who generally was seen riding a horse, having a felt hate on his head and a ‘Productivity tool’ in his hands, called hunter. He had only one mandate - highest possible production by all means. We can draw a lineage of HR of today with this ‘Gentleman’? Then came a ‘Period of Revolt.’ Agitations by workers were common all around the world. Governments of the day were pressurized to write labor laws on the one hand; and on the other hand, good samaritan psychologists started giving various people centric theories. One the best to quote here is Edwin Locke’s Goal Setting Theory of Motivation. Things started chan...