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HR Blues
In this article I make an inventory of my observations on HR. I cannot avoid concluding that HR can’t get any worse than it is today.
The Hawthorne Effect
One of the biggest names in the history of management is not the name of a guru but the name of a factory: Hawthorne Works. This is the factory where a series of experiments on factory workers were carried out between 1924 and 1932. There were many types of experiments conducted on the employees, but […]
Pay Attention to your Attention
Sometimes people look at me strange when I mention the importance of psychological safety during organizational change projects. It is a term that I borrowed from the writings of Edgar Schein. Until now I didn’t find a way to explain in plain English what exactly I understand under that term. Strange and expensive words come […]
