How the Best Practice HR
According to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® 2020 List, the top three companies are: Hilton, Ultimate Software, and Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. These three companies are all in different markets and industries, however, they achieved their status as the best through great human resources management.
Hilton is a large hotel brand, and they have a lot of personnel spread across the world. Their HR brand focuses on a lot of internal training and development for their employees, as well as a focus on internal mobility for career advancement. Hilton has the best rating because the organization is the most effective at showing their employees they care about them.
Ulimate software is a cloud based personnel and HR management software (Now UKG), and they provided many other companies with services for HR management, so Ultimate Software has all of the right tools to manage themselves well, and all of their employees know how to use them because they are the ones working on them everyday. I would be curious to see how the company is doing after the merger between Ultimate Software and Kronos.
Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is an East-Coast chain of supermarkets, and it is a company that is driven by it’s values and mission. Consistently is is awarded with Fortune Best Places to Work awards, and many of them are for Women, parents, or other specialized demographic. Wegmans places a lot of emphasis on training and giving back to their employees, as well as a lot of sustainability and corporate sustainability initiatives.
How I’d Like to Practice HR
If/When I become a manager, I want to be as direct and open with those that I am managing as possible. I want to be strategic, and hopefully when I am a manager I will have some say over the goals that my organization has, so that I can fully align my management strategy towards seeking to achieve those goals. I also want to be very transparent with my expectations for my employees, and help them as much as I can to exceed all of my and their own goals for themselves. I think that the hardest part of managing people will be having hard conversations, such as disciplinary action or firing someone. Additionally, I think another hard part of being a manager will be balancing having a friendly relationship and a great rapport with my employees with also keeping the role as manager intact. This especially seems like it will be a challenge in construction, where a lot of the time you are having to manage and work with people who are not in the same organization, so there is not a concrete organizational structure to abide by if people start butting heads.
Sources:
https://www.greatplacetowork.com/best-workplaces/100-best/2020
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