PHYSICIAN HEAL THY SELF

They say every plumber has a dripping tap at home and you tell the quality of a hairdresser by their own poor hair cut. So maybe just maybe I should not be surprised or saddened by the fact that my colleagues in central government HR claim they can help any part of their organisation or business transform and do so at breakneck speed except for its self.
There are times when you read a report and you know something is bothering you but you just cant put your finger on it. Well not this time We cant make the change happen because of disparity between pay and recruitment is like a mountaineer saying they cant climb Everest because it’s high.
Of course processes across the Civil Service HR will make it "very difficult" to create shared service back-office that’s why we have professional HR to be the tool to make organisations effective and sustainable. Its an afront to our profession that we have to be told by a minister that smaller public organisations and quangos under a certain size should share HR, IT and finance functions. If that isn’t a blinding flash of the obvious what is.
And then we hear that age old excuse of “ not yet - were not ready“.
AA Milne wrote
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs,
but sometimes he feels that there really is another way. If only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.
Thank goodness previous CIPD leadership has stepped into the affray and like AA Milne told HR to stop banging its heads on the stairs, grow up and stop shroud waving. We have an unsustainable position.. The real issues for our profession are more about time. Have we got enough time to make the contribution effectively before others see an opportunity to replace us.
This time the age old tactic of public sector Personnel of absorb and neutralise is not going to work. The end of recession and any green shoots of recovery wont signal a return to outdated people management processes. As soon as the Treasury sees the real green shoots of recovery they will seek to address their previous spending and implement the control measures necessary to balance books severely weakened by funding the finance sector.
So colleagues you no longer have a third choice. You either get dragged into effective HR kicking and screaming or you set the path that others in your departments can follow. I know what I would want to do.