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 One of the trails of commentary I've been following in the HR blogosphere this week is peoples’ and particularly HR practitioners’ reactions to private equity boss, Luke Johnson’s criticism of HR as a 'necessary evil' in the FT.
I commented on it, as did Personnel Today. But the most robust defence of HR was provided by Rick at Flip Chart Fairy Tales who pointed out that at least the article goes beyond repeating the usual gripes. In fact, Johnson thinks HR is so powerful that he compares it to Mossad or the CIA.
Given that, as Rick reminds us, senior HR managers are forever bemoaning their lack of power and influence, perhaps we shouldn’t be too displeased with these comments after all.What do you think? - what do we as HR practitioners need to do to respond to this criticism? And what about the CIPD? Should they perhaps be running TV adverts in the UK as SHRM have been doing in the US?
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