Thoughts on the article: " Why We Hate HR" by Keith H. Hammonds

The article brings attention to an important gap. But the negativity and these kinds of generalizations about the field and about HR professionals are also contributing to the widening of the gap and lack of change. In my senior year in college, in one of my business classes my professor stated to our entire class something along the lines of: "if you want to grow in business do not get into HR; you'll get stuck in HR." So after I graduated, just like the majority of graduates that this article points to, HR was not even on my list of field to explore. But as explored my interests in respect to my values and goals, I found HR to be a key field for my professional growth. The one think that I realized, and this article confirms, is there is a difference between what HR is and what people think HR that it is. For me, HR is about Performance: both the individual performance of the people and the total performance of the organization. Everything else are just tools and resources that either make or break the way to successful performance.