HR & IT have much in common – both are striving to be strategic partners while struggling with the challenges of providing service to the organization at individual, team and organizational levels. IT has leveraged Project Management – using the role of the business analyst to articulate the business of the organization at a detailed process level…a bottom up approach. HR has focused on a top down – faciltiating the articulation of the vision, mission and mandate and attempting to address impacts of culture and norms of behaviour. They need to find a way to work more collaboratively in the shared space between the detailed process and the macro organizational design and development issues.
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Common Words – Contrary Meanings
April 10, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Common Words – Contrary Meanings
Communicating across disciplines is a challenge…..we like to borrow terminology but adapt the meaning. I have been particularly intrigued by the contrast of meanings for common terms used within the disciplines of Human Resources & IT. It demonstrates the criticality of context. Let’s consider the word “redundancy”. Within an IT environment, building in redundancies can be a positive measure to ensure fail-safe operations – uptime of 99.999%. From an HR perspective, dealing with redundancies is not a desirable task; the outcome is normally job loss for at least some employees. Whereas the term legacy which has a positive, future-oriented connotation for HR; has a negative, past-orientation for IT. HR strategies for leadership development focus on inspiring leaders to create a legacy beyond their current tenure. IT faces the challenges of dealing with legacy systems that are stand-alone, cumbersome and detract from creating seamless operations.
Understand the context to understand the intended meaning of words….
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