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http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/97/open_hr.html
Author : Keith H. Hammonds is Fast Company's deputy editor.
Copyright © 2005 Mansueto Ventures LLC
Well, here's a rockin' party: a gathering of several hundred midlevel human-resources executives in Las Vegas. (Yo, Wayne Newton! How's the 401(k)?) They are here, ensconced for two days at faux-glam Caesars Palace, to confer on "strategic HR leadership," a conceit that sounds, to the lay observer, at once frightening and self-contradictory. If not plain laughable.
Because let's face it: After close to 20 years of hopeful rhetoric about becoming "strategic partners" with a "seat at the table" where the business decisions that matter are made, most human-resources professionals aren't nearly there. They have no seat, and the table is locked inside a conference room to which they have no key. HR people are, for most practical purposes, neither strategic nor leaders
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Keith H. Hammonds is Fast Company's deputy editor.
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http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/97/open_hr.html
Author : Keith H. Hammonds is Fast Company's deputy editor.
Copyright © 2005 Mansueto Ventures LLC
Well, here's a rockin' party: a gathering of several hundred midlevel human-resources executives in Las Vegas. (Yo, Wayne Newton! How's the 401(k)?) They are here, ensconced for two days at faux-glam Caesars Palace, to confer on "strategic HR leadership," a conceit that sounds, to the lay observer, at once frightening and self-contradictory. If not plain laughable.
Because let's face it: After close to 20 years of hopeful rhetoric about becoming "strategic partners" with a "seat at the table" where the business decisions that matter are made, most human-resources professionals aren't nearly there. They have no seat, and the table is locked inside a conference room to which they have no key. HR people are, for most practical purposes, neither strategic nor leaders
Read More
Keith H. Hammonds is Fast Company's deputy editor.
[Admin: Always reference articles on other websites like this to avoid copyright issues - this is called fair use.]