...that HR is ground zero of a company’s bureaucracy. From enforcing compliance to handling sensitive situations, HR sometimes feels more like the company’s rule enforcer than its champion for people....

...isn’t. If you don’t accept this, imagine you’re evaluating two competing proposals. One comes from an associate with whom you’ve worked for more than ten years — someone you know...

...Values,” (Kathryn Tyler, 4/1/2011), disagrees. It endorses formal values statements, while contending they aren’t sufficient. Companies should also require managers to explain them and, even more important, should “hold employees...(2 comments)

...a company like this, how might you make a business case for fun? How, that is, would you go about tabulating the costs and benefits that would let you compute...