Posted on 07/21/2022 4:06:30 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
From youtube: "Telegraph columnist Juliet Samuel joins Peter Whittle to discuss how mission creep has turned the once humdrum human resources department into an ultra-woke, bureaucratic beast."
This is video is excellent in the way it describes what has actually gone wrong in corporations all around the world re: their Woke transformation.
It has apparently all come from the HR departments and their rise to power in the last decade (and more).
The HR departments are telling corporations that what created the financial crisis back in 2008 was NOT low-interest rates and lax lending standards but the way that corporate cultures were managed. Ergo, HR had the answer and that answer was to turn power over to them and let them structure corporate cultures in ways that reflected the radical ideologies bleeding out of universities (Wokeism).
The original article by Juliet Samuel is in The Telegraph but is behind a paywall. This video captures the essence of her article (I think).
In my limited experience HR seems structured to protect the employer from lawsuits; implement the appropriate seminars so they could stand up in court and say “We tried...” if an employee does or says something stupid to another one.
According to Ms Samuel in this interview, a lot of corporate CEO’s are scared of the HR heads because HR has seeded managers all over the companies and the people in companies are, through such managers, loyal more to the HR departments (from whence their positions came) than the CEO.
In my limited experience HR seems structured to give unintelligent, incompetent brainwashed “minority” leftists the power to destroy a company they could never have even imagined much less built.
Listen to a bit of the interview (the first few minutes) and you will how this has all changed.
Woke culture in the workplace is why many sane people have left employment and refuse to return
I’ve never seen an HR dept. with any real authority, and I’ve seen them overruled multiple times by the people that make money for the company.
The fact that it isn’t a revenue generator probably consigns them to a back seat in many discussions.
I expect that we’ve seen different companies, and both admit that our experiences are “limited”.
I’m no fan of HR departments, but that seems ludicrous on its face — at least in any serious business. What kind of company would ever give HR the ultimate decision-making power when hiring ANYONE (let alone senior managers) outside of the HR department?
Indians have infiltrated HR to the extent that they are an internal mafia at a lot of companies.
It’s the Federal HR departments in the Federal Agencies who push this stuff and use it to make a direct impact on the way the government “enforces” laws and operating procedures.
Listen to the video for a few minutes and you’ll understand what has happened.
Right; mine definitely is. I just don’t hear friends/acquaintances mention HR except in the scenarios I described (running seminars - sometimes politically tinged - that aren’t to force anything down someone’s throat so much as to show the company did its due diligence in protecting employees). If there is any doubt, look at how meticulous they are in documenting attendance; it is given far more focus than examining whether anyone actually learned anything.
From another of my responses: “I just don’t hear friends/acquaintances mention HR except in the scenarios I described (running seminars - sometimes politically tinged - that aren’t to force anything down someone’s throat so much as to show the company did its due diligence in protecting employees). If there is any doubt, look at how meticulous they are in documenting attendance; it is given far more focus than examining whether anyone actually learned anything.”
Who goes to work expecting to have their political/social views shaped? It is the worst conveyor, because of the employer/employee relationship.
I think a bigger bridge is crossed when a company goes from Private to Public. I think a publicly traded company, especially with an independent board generally looses sight of what made the company great in the first place. For the most part in my career I was with Privately owned companies, although some were quite large.
I work for a company which is extremely progressive in their HR policies. What we did was break out HR from diversity initiatives so there is no conflict of interest. Yes, there does exist a conflict of interest, but it is not as extensive as I would have concluded and our code of conduct, which is practiced by everyone from the CEO down prevents many issues which a woke HR department might gravitate towards.
Funny thing for me is as I complete my MBA, which my company happily pays for, is centered around the HR function and my role within the company is such that I get to use that experience in my papers.
HR is putting all the woke crap (content) on the company intranet which you are bombarded with multiple times per day that creates this “culture”. Also, where do all the losers who “graduated” with women’s studies, black history, and transgender studies “degrees” wind up because other companies departments laugh at those degrees?
The publicly traded company faces more scrutiny but also has to be more protective of owners - and part of that is seeing they aren’t sued.
“Also, where do all the losers who “graduated” with women’s studies, black history, and transgender studies “degrees” wind up because other companies departments laugh at those degrees?”
Starbucks.
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