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Marta Moncosí: "In each organization the context dictates what to do".

- Openbravo's Human Resources Director, Marta Moncosí, participates in MDPO's 'My experience managing people' cycle

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04/05/17 22:50 Mateo Echeverria

When Marta Moncosí arrived at Openbravo her first mission statement was to create the Human Resources department "from scratch". Since then, the business, which gave work to 27 people, has grown to more than a hundred employees.

"In every organization the context dictates what to do," said Moncosí, who shared with the students the beginnings of his degree program at the retail-oriented software multinational. Among his first tasks, he hired the profiles they needed with the assurance that they moved within the appropriate legal framework , worked to increase the level of worker safety and reviewed the compensation system for their employees. "The biggest challenge was to accomplish the tasks with limited resources," he noted, something that helped him learn that "what works in one organization does not necessarily have to work in another."

She also wanted to "debunk myths" that are common in the field of people management : "there is no single way to be a good leader, it will depend on the team you are leading". Moncosí stressed that meritocracy does not ensure the quality of work and that "we all have unique capabilities" that only work in certain environments. He also pointed out that performance evaluations are the subject of a strong discussion at international level and that in many organizations such internship "is no longer the cornerstone of human resources".

Moncosí made the students reflect on the identity of their own generation: the millennials, which she characterized as "social, digital, and with values". She also shared some of the improvements identified among the youngest, such as the lack of "humility", "work hard", "patience" or a "technologicalknowledge " that is not exclusively focused on social networks.

The directive advised the students to "climb slowly the steps that lead to positions of responsibility, because this is the only way to avoid unexpected collapses." She also insisted that no work is unwanted because everything contributes if you know how to squeeze it out and everything contributes to being the professionals of tomorrow.

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