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Comment on: Topic 'Will HR and Recruiting stay married?': ate cultures - we can certainly advise people of their options, and the consequences of each option, but a lot of the bad behavior is driven by sales, or keeping costs down - that's been my experience. Typically, what happens, is that bad behavior persists, until it impacts profitability, and a death-bed conversion occurs. For the record, I'm speaking in general terms, about leadership. I think the value of HR and Recruiting, is to demonstrate the positive relationship between profit, engagement, leadership, and talent. The business, however, needs to be the change agent and driver in all things - not HR. Fundamentally, I don't hate HR, and I hope no one takes my comments this way, but I'm more concerned about new thought leadership. I see a lot of HR as completely reactive - administrative - when it needs to be more proactive in nature. The best way it can enable itself to this end, is to split off pieces that don't belong (recruiting, retention, finance like functions), stop trying to police, and lose the communist-like slogans about people -- mostly because they are untrue and Orwellian in nature. There's a reason many successful business people don't respect HR. Mission, vision, goals. Know what you want to do, and do it very well. KarenM said:Excellent point about security being towards the bottom Harold, and yes, people will indeed do a lot to fit in - reminds me so much of Enron. In the documentary Enron the smartest guys in the boardroom, they did an excellent job of demonstrating how easy it was for many individuals were able to succumb to the peer pressure, and / or environment - in this regard, that many areas of the heiarachy is being met. Security from money, and of course working with what was thought to be one of the best companies, and of course you had acceptance and love from your peers, and there was fear of repercussions if you didn't try to fit in.. and so on.. so, yeah, it does make a lot of sense in regards to Milgram But, being the dreamer that I am, I would like to believe that there are more good people, good workers, who generally have a strong sense of right and wrong and are able to discern and walk away. Maybe we can look at the opposite as well? maybe? what about Ennui? What if within a company there is lack of interest in the employees, their welfare, and the corporate culture by the powers that be, then is it possible that it will trickle down the totem pole? Which then may trigger the aspect of security? concern for future? the lack of sense of achievement? or do we become listless? and lose that desire? So, bringing this back to topic? Does HR and Recruiting have a lot to do to help promote this? fix it, or even create the problem? Can recruiting from the feedback they get from the street rely that HR will heed them, and address problems within companies and corporations? and will corporations care to make changes? Recruiting to me are the Ambassadors of the Company, they are the mouthpiece, and the cheerleaders. They are the ones who promote and sell the company.. but, at the same time, how in good conscience can we sell something that we don't believe in? Which then brings us back to both Maslow and Milgram.. Harold Ensley said:Hi Karen, I think you can look at Maslow's hierarchy a few ways. The base of the hierarchy is basic security needs - and it's hard to obtain this without a job, evil or not. If security was the top of the hierarchy, preventing actualization, then ethics, morals, etc. might come into play a little more. The fact that security is at the bottom (without the bottom we can't really function) I think most people just do what they have to do, just to get by - including working for companies with poor environmental records, employee relations, make questionable products, handle undesirable societal ills, etc. And despite where people work, when they so something against their core values it's "just business". You're probably right on references, etc, there are some potential counterbalances there. Overall I think the hierarchy is an excellent model, great point. …; Added by Harold Ensley at 5:15pm on October 16, 2009

Blog Post: How Eco-Engineering is changing the world: For the last 20 plus years, the world has been making use of non-renewable resources to make sure that it advances. This wasn’t a problem 20 years ago as people didn’t know about the type of…; Added by Ann Hoge at 2:26am on October 28, 2017