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Historically, in many companies, HR was considered an afterthought—a back-office corporate support function, more a necessity than a value-adding partner. Executive perception of HR’s job was to handle comp and ben, hire and fire and support necessary chores like open enrollment and organize corporate events for employees. This attitude was exacerbated by the perception that “if employees don’t like it they can take a hike—there are 10 others dying to take their place”. While companies may have… Continue

A real quote from a real CEO of a Fortune ranked company: “Don’t field an employee survey—we may need to do something.”

You’re doing a great job already of alienating everyone. Here’s how to finish the job:

1. Presume you’re right.
2. Don’t listen.
3. Don’t investigate.
4. Establish more teams and committees.
5. Launch a new initiative to mitigate the failure of the prior initiative.
6. Assume “cascading” will work or that your memo was read.
7. Blame someone else (preferably a large group cri… Continue