{"id":78223,"date":"2023-02-03T10:03:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T10:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cezannehr.com\/hr-blog\/2023\/02\/hr-random-acts-of-kindness\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T14:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:33:17","slug":"hr-random-acts-of-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cezannehr.com\/gr\/hr-blog\/2023\/02\/hr-random-acts-of-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Why HR should be advocates of Random Acts of Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ask someone what adjectives best describe HR professionals, and you\u2019ll probably get answers involving words such as \u2018strategic\u2019, \u2018flexible\u2019, \u2018organised\u2019 or \u2018objective\u2019. After all, those are all key qualities HR professionals need to be successful in their roles. But, would your employees immediately associate being \u2018kind\u2019 with HR? Probably not!<\/h3>\n

That\u2019s because HR isn\u2019t exactly famed for showing kindness. HR is often the department that must deal with difficult situations within the workplace: be it resolving staff disputes or managing poor performance. As a result, HR has always had to battle something of an unfair image problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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However, as we all know, HR is often at the centre of all the good things that happen within an organisation: from cultivating positive workplace cultures, to helping support employee health and wellbeing. So, wouldn\u2019t it make sense for them to also be advocates of kindness?<\/p>\n

Why HR need to be advocates of random acts of kindness<\/h3>\n

If instilling a sense of kindness in your organisation hasn\u2019t been on your list of HR priorities, this February\u2019s Random Acts of Kindness week – which takes place here in the UK between the 14th<\/sup> and 20th<\/sup> February, culminating in Random Acts of Kindness Day on\u00a0the 17th <\/sup>of February \u2013 is the ideal time to start.<\/p>\n

Started by the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation<\/a>, the event is designed to inspire people to pay forward simple acts of kindness. It\u2019s a fantastic way to unite employees, whilst also encouraging individuals and businesses to give something to others randomly \u2013 all without expecting anything in return.<\/p>\n

Given that we\u2019re living through a stalling economy and deepening cost-of-living crisis, highlighting the importance of kindness should be a priority for employers. Of course, when your business is under pressure<\/a> and your employees are dealing with heavy workloads, actively performing acts of kindness can be easily forgotten. This, however, would be a mistake.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because committing good deeds, or random acts of kindness, have been proven to support positive mental health. For example, researchers at the University of British Columbia<\/a>\u00a0found that when people with anxiety carried out acts of kindness for others, it helped to reduce their own anxiety and improve relationships with others, too.<\/p>\n

With virtually every business looking for ways to increase employee motivation and build successful cultures during difficult times, simple acts of kindness can go a long way to doing both. It makes perfect sense then, that HR teams get involved<\/a> and think about how they can raise awareness of the importance of kindness in the workplace.<\/p>\n

How HR can support a kinder workplace<\/h3>\n

With the power of kindness a force that businesses can ill-afford to ignore, here\u2019s how HR teams can support it not just during Random Acts of Kindness week, but year-round.<\/p>\n