In my HR program, we spend a lot of time learning how to design policies and systems that help organizations run efficiently and fairly. It’s important work, but sometimes it’s easy to forget what truly drives it all: the human side. As we move through our studies and future careers, it helps to pause and ask: am I applying the values I’m learning about? Do my own choices reflect the culture I’d like to help build? Real change starts from within. As future HR practitioners, it’s not enough to know the rules; we need to live them. HR is about people first, and when we start from authenticity and self-awareness, policies become more than documents. They become a reflection of how we show up every day and how people experience the workplace around us. Maybe that’s where real change begins.
Very well said Faranak! Couldn’t agree more 👏🏼
Very good insight. It is so important to consider how the values for the org are being used in their policies. How the words can be put together differently and said in certain ways that take us away from just using policy as a “rule”, it takes experience (having experienced similar) to know how to get in and change them.