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[quote=Anonymous]A stretch goal for your admin might be to learn a new skill (such as software certification) that would allow him or her to take on more duties, and eventually be promoted. Learn InDesign, for example. Learn to manage your budget. Those are skills that will be useful in the current position, and can lead to another job within the company.

I manage operations for a non-profit organization so HR is one of my areas of responsibility, and I hate the bureaucratic BS that gets put on HR departments. Mostly because it represents wasted resources (everyone's time of course, in learning it, doing it, and keeping up with it, and money to pay consultants to come up with it). I try to squash it whenever it comes up. However, when you're faced with a bad employee who needs to go, and you don't have the resources to deal with a lawsuit, it can be very valuable to have some weasel-worded justification for dismissal. The assigning of percentage values to the accomplishment of goals is of course arbitrary, and designed to give the company "proof" of poor performance. If you actually want to evaluate performance in order to improve function, I find peer reviews to be of more value.

PP was right. HR works for the company, not the employee. [/quote]

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