How do you judge a company’s culture is messed up?
One way to look at Glassdoor reviews to see what people say but there is another way, take a look at the HR function and evaluate what’s going to be coached.
For last few years, HR teams engagement scores are low, well they are humans but funny part is, their scores have been lowest in the organization. This team has never done any action on their survey results ever! The only reason results change is because new people do not start with same problem most often. The attrition in the HR team is worth commenting on.
Here is the state of art HR Team:
Site HR scrambles most of the time with continuous churn of team members and shifting alignment, recruiting is swamped, benefits keep going down, compensation is a joke both from bench marking to communication stand point, Systems are half baked and the great helpmehr is very leisurely. If you get an answer for your HR question without being tossed at least 5 times, then you are seriously lucky.
HR lady reflects an Avon mentality by not just wearing 90’s fashion trend of brooches in all hands meet but also at work by looking to cut costs, pushing people to be working from office and creating a not so transparent culture. She and her leaders are all seen as lacking empathy, dishonest and manipulative. Ever wonder how many HR names you had to remember in last 2 years, search them in outlook and you will find most of them gone.
I would not take advice from fake CHRO or her lieutenants on how to keep team engage, keep attrition low or how to be inspirational or transformational. She can’t seem to keep her house in order so should not preach!!