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At my job right now lots of changes are being made and its making some people frustrated and said...."I am going to HR" What can be accomplished when going to HR when a manager sends you to another dept? I didnt think they could do anything if the head of an agency decided to make changes.
It depends on what you mean by going to another department, what you were hired to do, if there is a union or other contractual obligation, substantial change in hours or pay. In general, scheduling is a management right, but they can't reassign you from being a clerk in the mail room to repairing IT equipment.
At my job right now lots of changes are being made and its making some people frustrated and said...."I am going to HR" What can be accomplished when going to HR when a manager sends you to another dept? I didnt think they could do anything if the head of an agency decided to make changes.
People who go to complain to HR are under the mistaken belief of what the role of HR actually is. In every organization, the head of HR reports to upper management, they aren't some independent body which has any power. They aren't there to protect the employees. But for some reason, some people think that's what HR does and they don't. Anytime you go to HR to complain, they take notes and report the conversation to your manager. Then it is the manager that decides what to do about. The vast majority of the time, that employee is now labeled a troublemaker. This doesn't win any favors for the employee. After being hired you only talk with HR if it has to do with your benefits and possible corrections to payroll. The only control HR has, is over HR itself. They don't hire or fire anyone, they only do that under the direction of management.
Anyone who tells co-workers "I am going to HR" just revealed they have no clue as to how things work.
Agree with the rest. HR is basically expected to a robotic extension of ownership and if you are defiant, you be gone.
At best, you can ask a nice HR person how ownership will react if you defy or complain about one of their changes.
Ownership/management almost always knows how employees will react to the changes they make.
If you are lucky enough to work for a good company that actually cares about its employees, they will ask input from the employees before making a change.
Likely, their next performance reviews won't be pretty and they will be managed out using a performance improvement plan or they will get laid off out of the blue for "business reasons."
HR is good for reporting serious issues like sexual harassment but not the garden variety "I don't like my manager," "so and so is being mean to me," "I don't like this new policy" types of complaints.
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