Hi Readers,
This is with reference to the news item “Infy not to hire Satyam employees” in The Economic Times dated. Friday, 9th January 2009.
Mohandas Pai, Director HR, Infosys Technologies said that “We have asked our recruitment staff not to poach anybody from Satyam. The company is in the middle of a crises and people will jump ship”.A person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named, said that “Infosys would refrain from even hiring domain experts or project managers from Satyam. Infosys has even advised its staff against entertaining calls from the Satyam employees.”
It is really a sad statement by Mohandas Pai, Director HR, Infosys Technologies.I feel, this is extremely unfair and unjust on the part of the Satyam employees who are seeking employment else where, since the Satyam fraud was not caused by the deeds of these employees, but by the misdeeds of management board themselves and of which these employees were in no knowledge of. Whatever income/revenue Satyam has had was majorly because of the work done by these employees only.
On one hand, where we consider that the company is a distinct personality from its stakeholders, employees, etc., on the other hand we make such unjust statements and blame the employees for no fault of theirs per se.
On one hand, companies say that they are not able to find talented people for jobs and on the other, they ignore the talent of the such employees.
Does all this mean real HRM?
What do you think on this?
Am I right in my view?
Regards,
- Anand Wadadekar Pune, Maharashtra
