Dear Editor,
From the greatest distance it is evident that GuySuCo’s Human Resources Management Function is in disarray, lacking as it does any competence in the leadership of that function.
The most recent advertisements of related vacancies, moreso at the Head Office, would indicate to prospective applicants, and other interested observers, that it would be helpful to be informed early of the organisational structure within which relevant staff would have to operate. The spate of earlier vacancy notices would tend to indicate levels of inexperience associated with a high turnover. One is generally unconvinced that there exists any substantive level of expertise in perhaps the most critical developmental area responsible for identifying skill needs and satisfying them, throughout the organisation, as most senior managers in the various departments would have experienced in their respective career journeys.
For instance, in the instant vacancy notices there is little, if any, indication of reporting relationships; the extent of critical communication with colleague departments, and the level of staff to be supervised and developed.
Who then would be responsible for evaluating performance, and moreso conducting authoritatively such an exercise that would earn respect throughout the corporation; for surely the exercise must be seen as part of a compensation management system to be informed to related staff.
Unfortunately there is hardly any institutional memory obtaining in the current version of GuySuCo that can advise on action that could compare with those of its more progressive past, so much inspired by teamanship in decision-making, by the recognition of one another as equal human beings.
How many of current senior managers indulge in the productive communication practice of ‘Worker Participation’? When last has there been a Human Resources Management Conference in the Corporation?
Who will design and conduct the education programme for the Student Affairs Officer (Male/Female) at the Training Centre at Port Mourant? When and who in the Corporation can aspire to being a Human Resources Director?
Yours faithfully,
E B John
