HR Mistake and Advice [N/A]
Hey, ya’ll!
I’m a few years into my HR career, and about one year the my current company. I definitely made the biggest mistake of my HR career thus far, and am in complete shambles over this and will probably feel sick to my stomach and beat myself up over this for the foreseeable future.
Long story short, I approved an increased compensation for an associate on a 12-month assignment at another location, and due to clarification and communication gaps that I take full accountability for, the increased compensation shouldn’t have happened, and the host department is now seeing the effects hit their cost center (so essentially, I way over paid someone when I shouldn’t have), and now the team is trying to figure out how to allocate for this budget.
I brought it to my managers attention when I realized my mistake, and was completely transparent with her and the HRBP of the associate and owned up to my wrongdoings here and acknowledged my lack of clarity and communication to the associates manager, and I wanted to be fully transparent with her. This assignment was a messy and poorly governed process to begin with, and I essentially got approvals for the comp from someone that back then, shouldn’t have approved them - but that’s a different story lol.
ANYWAYS…..from some of you seasoned HR pro’s, how do you deal with making BIG mistakes like this, learning from them and moving on? I’m so scared and afraid to even show my face at work, given how many people are now involved with this. Also interested to hear some of your biggest mistakes in the career field, so I can try to feel like I’m not the only person in the world that has done this.