Dhaka, Jan. 20 -- After working for five years in a company, Rakib Hasan (pseudonym) was expecting a pay raise. When his expectations did not meet, all his frustrations fell on the Human Resources (HR) department of the company. In a different context, when the company made a huge profit through sales in a year, all the departments -- marketing, sales, finance, operations got their fair share of appreciation but the HR department didn't. What do they do anyway?

In the corporate world, these are some common scenarios amid many other misconceptions where the HR department suffers. This eventually questions the significance of the HR department, especially when the corporate hierarchy of most modern companies is comparatively flatter than b...