Re-branding "HR" (was Re: [LINK] Carbon-neutral web hosting)

[Stilgherrian]

On 4/10/07 5:55 PM, "David Lochrin" <dlochrin at d2.net.au> wrote:
>    Who remembers when that part of the organisation which hired staff, and
> occasionally fired them, was known as "The Staff Department"?  This was
> followed by the rather more impersonal "Personnel" until it too was overtaken
> by "Human Resources" when the retrenchments of the 1980's got into full swing.
> 
>    I wonder what the next level of depersonalisation will be known as?

For some years now, the appropriate management jargon term has been "human
capital" rather than "human resources", because "capital" is something that
implies an investment, whereas a "resource" is something you exploit.

However the Sydney Opera House now has a "Director, People & Culture".

What comes after THAT, I wonder...?

Stil


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