Best 54 quotes in «human resources quotes» category

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

The only waste of human resources is letting them go unused.

Able hands' are more favorable to business than 'adorable hearts'.

A car crash at seventy-five miles an hour results in glass and steel strewn about the roadway. Emergency workers attend to the injured drivers, passengers and bystanders, and remove the wreckage. An electronic communication wreck lacks the visual drama, but imparts damage just as real and just as permanent. A momentary lapse in judgment may prove catastrophic for the writer, their family, coworkers, and stakeholders.

An email cannot be ignored. You may wish an email was not sent to you, because you learned what you did not want to know, but it must be acted upon because there is now a permanent record linking you to that information.

An organization's proprietary, internal information is constrained only by an understanding that stake-holders will keep organizational matters within the organization.

A single employee, with one message, can succinctly capture the essence of a corporation the same way an iconic photograph captures a moment. Unfortunately, it is usually the negative massages that are published or used in lawsuits.

Carefree Scamps are unconventional to the extreme but they get better results, and frequently their employers, who were often in two minds about offering them the position in the first place, eventually realise they’ve found a diamond, yet not only are they unsure how to handle them, they can seldom work out how specifically they accomplish their objectives because in one way or another they’re always rocking the bloody boat. The Carefree Scamp takes quite a bit of ‘managing

Emails are viewed as an essential historical record of an organization. A record that cannot be expunged must be created with care or not created at all.

Emails, texts and social media promise the writer the power to be heard…In a society where relinquishing control is viewed as weakness, power is relinquished through every message sent without forethought to the potential consequences.

Every posting, message, or email creates an impression, a public persona, from which other people make judgments. We make judgments about others, but how often do we turn that critical analysis on ourselves?

EWI: Emailing While Intoxicated

For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite opinion.

He strode briskly away, to do whatever it was the managers did. Have meetings, I guess. Make phone calls. It was hard for us on the technical side to understand why the company required so many managers. Engineers built things. Salespeople sold things. Even Human Resources I could understand, kind of. But managers proliferated despite performing very few identifiable functions.

Human resource is limited to the duration of his/her lifespan while time is unlimited.

A damaging email forwarded outside the organization is indicative of problems within the organization.

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.

Do not punish people for being honest and truthful. The day we will start punishing people for demonstrating honesty and truthfulness, will also be the day we will start surrounding ourselves with liars and dishonest people. Reward the behavior you want your people to demonstrate.

Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.

Employees are people who live in communities. Let's stop pretending workplaces are separate from community, places where robots go to die.

Fifth wheel employees are those who are a result of the mistake made by the human resources wing, i.e. by recruiting wrong person to the wrong job just to fill in the vacancy and then expect better performance. Further such an employee is unable to put in his best and is just an additional mass available within the organization.

History was once rewritten by the victors. Now we write our own immutable histories with every email, text, and post.

Humankind is the greatest resources. Don’t lose faith in the people.

If you don't know the answer to a question, don't guess, don't speculate, don't hypothesize, don't make a joke it by email, tweet, conference call, or at a press conference...Somehow, eventually, the electronic communication surrounding a situation will be made public and clarify and clarify what actually transpired.

If you fulfill the wishes of your employees, the employees will fulfill your visions.

If you must then hire for passion first, experience second and credentials third. Then train those hired for directed passion, dropping the excess baggage and the whole process of unlearning. An entrepreneur is much like an architect shapping human resources into a well crafted power house.

Incentives aren't the only thing that matter for economic growth. Opportunity is also crucial, and extreme inequality deprives many people of the opportunity to fulfill their potential, and government programs that reduce inequality can make the nation as a whole richer by reducing that waste.

I have more than 6670 employees spread across the length and breadth of the country who live and experience the brand 'Bajaj Allianz' everyday. I'd like to believe that these people are the company's most valued brand ambassadors.

In the Darwinian environment of business, one's most provocative words are naturally selected by competitors to be hurled back at them at the most inopportune moments. Do not arm your adversaries.

In the modern, networked and symbiotic world we live in, people management is less about squeezing performance from the organized few and more about curating contribution from the limitless many.

in a world more networked and connected than ever, your talent increasingly doesn’t carry an employee ID.

It is better to deal with unemployment than allowing yourself to be employed and remain unpaid!

If you are paying someone to motivate you (seriously), you should rather pay to a psychiatrist.

Most people do not see their words as power.

My men are my money.

People act in ways to maximize their self-interest within a company, so create incentives that align employee's objectives with the organization's mission statement. Reward compliance with core values as much as profitability, especially in the face of competitive pressures.

Neither inherently good nor evil, electronic communication platforms are 100 percent dependent on user input.

Providing employment is the best form of social service, as it serves you, others, your country, your world - the entire society.

It is the sweat of the servants that make their squire look smart.

Systems and rules are guidelines, leadership is lifeline.

Recruiting should never be outsourced. Everyone at your company should be different in the same way.

Once a message has been sent electronically, the writer has ceded power not just to the recipient, but to whomever the recipient chooses to forward the information. To access electronic communication is to control it. The recipient, not the writer, has power over future dissemination of the writer’s words.

Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.

The reason why employee relations have lost its sheen in aiding productivity, is to be searched for , within the doors of your corporate structure , i.e. your human resource department.

The written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.

The hardest challenge being an HR is that sometimes you have to be the LAWYER, the JUDGE and the HANGMAN.

The wealth of time is the only wealth that is more valuable than human resources.

They are not human resources. They are resourceful humans

We live in an age where corporations are people and employees are not.

Unleash the potential that is in another and you unleash the potential that is in you.