HR at its worst

The reason why I am writing this post is still unclear to me. This was about the practices in an organization which disturbed me to an extent that I was questioning myself how I can share the same profession with these people. The actual incident was when I was speaking to a family friend of mine and in a general discussion about his office and my foray into asking for fieldwork and internship. His organization is one of India's biggest private organizations in renewable energy with a concerted presence pan India and then he revealed me the facts that it was worthless to try it in his organization as the HR managers do not even interact with the staff and only talk with their bosses. I felt shocked but this was just the tip of the iceberg the next incident he narrated caught me off guard and I was stunned. He told me about a HR practice which is followed on the presence of the managing director he described the incident so vividly that showed the anger in him. He told me that whenever the MD arrives to the office in Chennai. The office of the organization is bolted inside and people are supposed to stand in a queue like school children to wish him this is a must for all employees and then when he leaves this process has to be followed again and he was venting his fury at the HR department. I was wondering in the time we are wondering on employee engagement and employee morale we are seeing these things also. If anyone has heard practices like this I would be more than eager to listen and just hope this acts are removed.

Cheers
Arvind Srikantan