Management Humour..

Q. Why you need HR Manager in an organization?

Ans:- To handle people and execute the different HR functions.

Q. Is it possible to replace people with system?

Ans:- It depends on the nature of the business. Like complex surgical operation where robots can do better than human or a machine is more efficient than human (in reading xray and ECG reports)

Q. Imagine that you are ill or some loved one is having a heart surgery and you are standing near a computer which tells you to move right, you don't know your right or computer's right. Then it instructs you to walk five steps and lie down on a bed. Then you see two robots coming with scalpel and surgical instruments. Will you not be scared? I mean won't you want some personal touch or something?

Ans:- Then I guess this system is not for emotional people like you and me, its for those people who appreciate technology.

Well, the discussion continued further with statements like then it's only for animals I guess.

Sir, Humans are the most civilized animals.

These are the excerpts from one HR guest lecture at IFMR. Mr. Abraham who is HR manager at Kevin Care was really humorous but then he has to appreciate that though there were only 19 people attending his session, most of the time he was caught off-guard by sharp minds at work. Overall, the session that he took was quite entertaining and full of humour but then end of the day I think I got one more sample to prove this hypothesis that HR is more about applying Common sense and less of mugging up theory.