In many businesses, human resources departments don't intervene at the right time. They arrive when everything is going wrong, when a manager is losing control, when a high turnover rate alerts senior management. They are then called in to "fix the problem" and, because they have learned to deal with such situations, they put out the fire. But this emergency mindset, which has become their daily lot, reflects a shift: HR is no longer there to build, but to repair.
This position is comfortable for the rest of the organization, which...
The rhetoric is well-rehearsed and omnipresent in every business: "people are our most valuable asset", "human capital is at the heart of our strategy",...
Last January, APEC (the French executive employment agency) published a study on how French executives perceive HR, and I'd like to take this opportunity to...
Whether I'm reading studies or job offers or listening to a conversation on the subject, there's something that really irritates me: when we talk about...