Role model your leader, firms advised
By LEE KIAN SEONG
PETALING JAYA: Leadership is a vital element in human resources (HR) and companies need to learn to adapt to the young generation to succeed in HR development, said Leaderonomics chief executive officer Roshan Thiran.
Leaderonomics is a leading learning and consulting organisation.
Roshan Thiran says leadership engagement is the b i ggest HR issue in Mala ysia now. Speaking to StarBiz at a seminar on Innovation Solutions To Graduate Recruitment recently, Roshan said leadership engagement was the biggest HR issue in Malaysia now.
The event was organised by HR consultancy P-Pearl Solutions Consulting Sdn Bhd and Cubiks with the support of Leaderonomics.
He said leaders needed to be engaged in HR development and not delegated to a HR person. "If you are developing a leader, you have to role model the leader," he added.
Roshan stressed that each individual played an important role in HR development and he or she must be ready to accept the job's challenge and willing to change.
On whether bigger companies are in a better position to address HR development issues, he said some leaders in big companies were mostly involved in operational execution and put less emphasis on HR development.
Maybank talent management head Chen Fong Tuan pointed out that corporate social responsibility (CSR) was also critical in leadership development as leaders would learn to build themselves through the process.
"They (leaders) are managing a CSR project and they have to interact with people, thus they have to know their business as well. This is an important learning process for leaders," he said.
To address the culture of young generation, P-Pearl Solutions Consulting managing director Natasha Mak said companies needed to be a little less formal in hierarchical structure, bring more fun to work and be more flexible in their policies.
"They need to let their staff to be more accessible to the higher level management and create more interaction in the companies," she said.
Mak said the young generation preferred multi-tasking, thus companies should try to rotate them to handle different tasks.
She added that transparency was also important, as the young generation was keen to know what was going on in their organisations.
Meanwhile, Chen said loyalty was not an issue for the young generation and that they were looking for the "meaning" in their jobs and higher pay.
"It is a mentality issue and a lot of them don't know what they actually want, thus they have to be more mature," he said.
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