HUMAN BEINGS

“Human beings are the most important, potent and critical resource of any organization, and yet the least understood and the worst managed of its resources.”

What is a school without teachers or students, a business without customers and a company without a workforce? Any organization will not exist without human resources because they are the ones who create and run the organization. They are responsible for a company’s survival or sometimes, a reason for its downfall. Employees know what is best and what is bad for the company compared to advanced technology that does not have its own knowledge and is not capable of decision-makings.

However, now that we are living in a world where most companies use advanced technology to develop efficiency in their employees’ work, there is little or no importance given to them. Because of these advanced technology, companies depend more on machines and softwares that replaces some responsibilities of their employee that is why, there is less need for manual labor. There is an advertisement from a telecommunication company that endorses the use of internet and other communication devices and softwares that is capable of doing human work and saying “Iwas hassle, iwas errors”. Furthermore, too much dependency to these machines and softwares, human resource mismanagement is visible in the companies like for example, when computer systems crash down, databases that contain the even then most confidential records of their employees or of the company could be lost. Aside from the decrease of manual labor and mismanagement, there exists union busting which is rampant because they treat unions as threats to the company. Moreover, there is deprivation to the employees’ rights like for example, they suffer from force labor but they receive very low salary, others are working overtime but they do not receive overtime payments, these are the situations of most workers and other people living below the poverty line. Lastly, there are delays in giving non-wage benefits for those working or retired employees especially nowadays that corruption is lurking everywhere which is made easy by using modern technology.

There is nothing wrong with using technology in our daily lives but we must remember that there is more important resource than technology, HUMAN BEINGS.

“We may think that technology is our friend, but sometimes it is not”.

“Machines do not have feelings, but human beings do”.

“No technology can fulfill what human beings can do for a company”.