Posted on 08/09/2020 6:15:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
Current human resource (HR) policies deliberately misuse terms such as diversity and equity to achieve political ends. That isn’t news. But the process by which those terms were twisted into their current shapes is worth a look. Likewise, it is important to see how their current usage is grounded in economic ignorance and unsound ethics. Sadly, the resultant HR policies -- including microaggression training and gender-and-race training -- feed a growth industry of diversity hucksters. These quick-buck artists subvert productive corporate meritocracies and replace them with systems that enshrine mediocrity, manufacture complaints, and generate resentment – not to mention whining and pearl clutching. Even worse, the dismal results of these programs only seem to validate those who started them! The dysfunctional corporate cultures they create give politically motivated HR staff an opportunity to “referee” disputes among their newly infantilized employees. Meanwhile, adults who just want to do their jobs well, get paid, and go home are marginalized or driven off – as in the case of Google engineer James Damore; scores of editors, journalists, and columnists; and university professors in the U.S. and Canada.
From Cross-Cultural Training to “Woke” HR Policies
It wasn’t always this way. Cross-cultural business training is a valuable initiative that goes back at least 50 years. In the 1990s, for example, innovative firms offered programs based on the work of Dutch social psychologist Geert Hofstede. Hofstede’s “cultural dimensions theory” identified crucial differences in world cultures. His theory was adapted and incorporated into programs that assist employees as they conduct business around the world. In particular, these programs train people to respond appropriately to the following culture-based sensitivities, or “dimensions”:
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Well aware.
They have created a “cancer culture” that employs little nazis that are given the power to hurt you
I am so thankful that I work for an excellent small firm (very small - a boutique) that does not even have an HR department, just an office manager who is practical and all business, and not the least bit interested in trying to be woke. I did work for over 20 years at a very large company which had all the diversity and woke bells and whistles. I left there over 10 years ago, and I can only imagine how much more woke and obnoxious they are now if you are a conservative or moderate working there. They were already jumping on every liberal and leftie bandwagon back then.
I just want to do my job and go home. I don’t want to be co-opted into or coerced to donate money to ANY cause or support any group or person my employer takes up if such activities were not part of the job that I knew about when I started. These days, some firms will consider whether an employee “supports the [liberal] goals of the firm” as part of the annual review, so you better be onboard unless you want to get downgraded in your review.
Not just little nazis inside the company, but they listen to little nazis outside as well.
I was recently fired from an executive position because, in my personal time and under my own name, I posted a reply to a George Floyd Letter to the Editor. This was online.
I said that George Floyd was a drug-using scumbag who caused his own death by resisting.
Well, a little nazi searched my name, found my employer and reported me.
The HR manager terminated me.
You cannot sue because there are no legal protections for political speech.....unless you are fired for endorsing LGTBQ, BLM, etc.....then you are in a protected class.
The laws and systems have been aligned against us, folks. Watch your backs and know that once Trump is out of office, we are all targeted for submission or elimination.
I had good ones until the early 1990s. I guess that is when “personnel” and “benefits” people became “Human Resources.” That is when we had to start attending “diversity” training. That is when every disciplinary issue had to be reviewed, starting with “what the person was” vs “what they did.”
I discovered then that I had been a suppressive white bastard for decades. I was told I should feel shame.
What I felt was pissed. I took it for two years and then found a new job.
You didn’t work with me...:*))
And...I left HR in the early 1990s....it was becoming like government to me...
“ The purpose of HR is to avoid expensive lawsuits against the company for discrimination or hostile work environment.”
A friend of mine started up a “diversity” consultant company. She’s a mixed race Brazilian and is making money hand over fist.
In Oregon, some state agencies are requiring job applicants to say what they have done to promote diversity and inclusion.
It's an utterly miserable experience and offensive to me on every level that our HR department has the nerve to pick a group, isolate it, and invite others to berate it over and over ... in the name of making us stronger.
Not by accident. And this crap has infiltrated corporations. The only reason this gets changed is by lawsuits against companies for wrongfully firing people.
Those who can, do, those who can't teach...or become HR folks.
Our HR manager was a female homosexual “Bull”, not much upward movement if you are a heterosexual, white guy over 50, regardless of your experience and value to the company.
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