Firstly, let me clarify I have no issue with the task and responsibility taken up by HR guys. I am here to put forward an extra responsibility that they can take up for the better tomorrow of corporate houses they represent. Indian along with China is among the most sought out destination for growth and this means that this MNCs comes here and set-up shops (offices, manufacturing units, etc). This brings good news and a bad news on the table; good news is ‘lots of job creation’, bad news: we don’t have enough resource to meet the demand. But what’s worse is our existing resources have no capability to meet the criteria laid down by the corporate world. Every time I read a recruiter’s interview, I find his biggest concern as non-employability of the engineering, management and other graduates. So this means the organisations have to spend a good amount of money and time on them to make them employable.
Here, I believe, HR can play a larger and more impactful role. We all know it’s the role of HR to recruit the best available resource (within the organisation budget) and then to retain them. But in a market where the supply is limited and demands unlimited HR managers are forced either to suffice with what is available or overshoot the budget. What if the HR managers take a step back and make sure what is thought in colleges is relevant with the industries need.
Though, we find a lot of top executive in the list of board of governors of various management colleges, guiding them about the need of industries, I believe the process of corporate involvement with the academic world should start at the college level. I believe the HRD minister and others should relook at AICTE’s role in curriculum design and rather leave it on a committee represented by both academician and corporate than those snail speed AICTE guys.
So what’s the role that HR is gone a play? It is this division of the business that understand the needs of various other divisions. It is this division who have the responsibility towards the employee of all the divisions in terms of their training and development, growth within the organisation. So we can say they understand the need of the corporate world better than anyone else and hence should be given the responsibility to communicate with the academic world about the corporates need by joining them in task of curriculum design and also in it delivery.
