Mangaluru: Episode three, Part 1 of NewsKarnataka.com’s People @ Work titled When HR @ Startups? was held on October 10.
Ramesh Ranjan, Editor and founder of HumanEngineers.com, a popular HR website that deals with managing the people side of the business hosted the event.
Special guest of the event was Narayan T., CHRO, Accel Partners. He has about 25 years of experience in his career. He has done his Masters in HR and Management at ISB School. He has worked in various companies like Capillary, Rombus, Co-sisters, Colcam etc. He has participated in various marathons, and in the next month he will be participating Marathon Paris.
Narayan said that, ‘HR is all about laying foundation to start, governance and scalability. In company HR plays role in 3 different attributes, the first one is Transaction, Tactical, and Scripture. HR need to schedule interviews, issue order letter etc. and in the next attribute HR will have regular conversation with employees. He is the bridge between employers and the owner.
Where as in the start ups, the HR need not be tactical he should be a partner of the owner. Start ups need talent attribution and need help to the founder in bringing up the company.
He has to make the owner realise that the priority must be given to the public, product and last the profit. HR plays vital role in converting informal conversation into formal conversation.
The start ups is just like a learning ground. It gives lot of lessons to the management as well as employees.
