human resources
also referred to as: hr
3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 1, 2019 by Dan Ariely · across every show →
Everything said about human resources, oldest first
Apr 1, 2019 negative
Ariely: HR is the least reputable and most bureaucratic corporate department
“HR, I think, is maybe the worst, least reputable department in almost every company. Maybe compliance is worse, but you know, it's a hierarchy of the company. HR, rather than
Being considered the R&D arm of the company is considered a bureaucracy that people d…”
May 17, 2021
Ariely: HR should operate as an R&D function, not legal compliance
“HR in most company is a procedural process. Legal function. They do the sexual misconduct and the module. They worry about procedural things. I think that HR needs to be an R&D function. They need to continuously try different things and improve how the compan…”
Jun 26, 2023 neutral
Breitfelder: Harvard Business School offered zero HR classes twenty years ago
“But in that era of HBS, and I graduated twenty-odd years ago, there weren't any HR classes. HR was not seen as a profession anyone from HBS would ever go into. And HR functions had been positioned as administrative, not strategic.”