Why are HR managers puppets to bosses?

Why is it that HR personnel always act as puppets to their bosses and are more interested in their jobs than helping and trying to understand employees?
Bob

Dear Bob,
The human resource (HR) department is broadly mandated to manage the entry, stay and exit of people in organisations.
To execute the resourcing mandate, HR professionals are responsible for gate-keeping, that is, ensuring that the right people are employed in the right positions at the right time as required by the organisation
To execute the stay mandate, the HR is required to manage the remuneration, motivation, skilling and development of people in the organisation. This also includes the People Advocacy role we shall return to later.
To execute the exit role, HR handles the people exit processes, and these range from resignations and terminations, to pensions management.
Employees are mostly interested in the advocacy role of HR, especially when they encounter challenges with their supervisors. They expect HR to become some kind of defence lawyers and when HR assumes the neutral and objective position, they are in most cases branded puppets of management.
Truth be told, some HR personnel have tended to shy away when they are called out to provide leadership in objectivity and adherence to the labour law and HR manuals, but this has unfortunately proven very costly to some employers, when their unfairly treated employees, have successfully sued and exacted huge awards from the Industrial Court.

Moses Ssesanga
Head Human Resource
Monitor Publications Limited
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