And on the other side of the coin HR is as inept as the applicants and run for cover when accountability for hiring is mentioned. They hide behind profile testing such as the Chally test and others. If the applicant turns out to be a loser they have cover...”We screened and tested using the best available technology.” How about, you do your best to find the right person and some don’t work out so you release them? Oh, I forgot, not working out is someone else’s fault and the unsuccessful applicant can sue you.
Toward the end at Digital Equipment Corp., the company hired a squad like Henry Ford’s “servicemen.” They were allegedly there to ensure there was no workplace abuse going on. Instead, they spent their time threatening employees and covering-up some of the worst employer abuses against workers I’ve ever seen (including suicide and commitment to an insane asylum). I feel certain what became of DEC hastened the death of Ken Olsen some years later. People who knew him say that after DEC was stolen by a handful of criminal “managers” that rode-away with several hundred million in company former worth, Olsen never recovered.