‘…I share all of this background and evidence to help defensive HR reps and their apologists understand why I criticize HR as a function, a department, a service — not the few brave individuals who buck the trend and act with decency. Broad sweeping generalizations or stereotypes are only unfair if they are not true. I’ve shown above why I can say that HR, with few exceptions, is a morally bankrupt internal organizational service that contemporary organizations should consider dropping’:
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‘The brilliant Avis boss Robert Townsend in his book Up the Organisation suggests firing the entire personnel department’
‘Of course, senior executives understand that HR is powerful – a bit like Mossad or the CIA’
‘Bosses who do a poor job can be as bad as workers: no one seems to accept blame for anything’
‘good leaders care about results, not process’
‘Companies should start getting fit right now. As Albert Einstein said: “Bureaucracy is the death of any achievement.” When it is a question of survival, there is no room for the non-essential.’
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9e10714c-ced7-11dc-877a-000077b07658.html#axzz1xlOIGmQ7
‘People want to do a good job, but they are not given the support to do it’
HR’s ‘answer to most workplace challenges is more facts’
Source:http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cac839a6-3ae7-11e1-b7ba-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1xlOIGmQ7
‘In expanding its empire, human resources damages intellectual standards and peddles nonsense’
‘a burden on the backs of the productive worker’
Source:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=401385
Have ‘overwhelmingly negative assumptions about human nature’
Source:http://www.amazon.com/The-Democratic-Enterprise-Liberating-Flexibility/dp/0273675281
(Lynda Gratton, "One of Britain's leading lights in human resource strategy", Financial Times)
‘Other than government legislation, to whom or what is the HR department accountable on a day-to-day basis?
The short answer is no one’
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http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2012/05/11/58529/should-hr-be-regulated.html
"I hate the HR business partner model,"
“HR directors need to be business leaders, not business partners."
‘but the wise build their house upon rock rather than sand’
Source:
http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/hro/features/1073084/evolution-hr-profession-verge-dramatic-transformation-extinction
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