Human Capital: The disenfranchisement of employees

Human Capital: The disenfranchisement of employees

For a while now, the phrase “Human Capital” has replaced “Human resources” as the buzz phrase to refer to people in an organisation.

I suspect the well intentioned people within the “job title and department naming” department were thinking that it suggested an association with capital and investment. How [...]

January 16th, 2007 | Tags: | Category: Culture & behaviour | Comments are closed

“Work-Life balance”: A dangerous way to think about the issue

“Work-Life balance”: A dangerous way to think about the issue

You hear it all over the place nowadays. “I need a better work-life balance”. “People have their work-life balance wrong”.”You need to improve your work-life balance”.

What this all suggests is that work and life are at the opposite ends of a scale. Like a [...]

January 11th, 2007 | Tags: , | Category: Culture & behaviour | Comments are closed