British-Conservatism

Read my previous posts (and some of what Olympic Flame has written) The new Frankfurt School pick-n-mix Marxism is tailor-made for yuppies, managers and other members of the bourgeoisie who want to wear their hearts on their sleeves without having to get their hands dirty.

Excellent.
So true.

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The Bear

Not at all. At least certaily not in the majority of cases.

Communication is an absolutely key dimension of successful management and words, especially words in common use, are not a good means of communicating information or ideas.

It follows that the introduction of a new word with a definition of what it entails results in everyone then knowing that when they hear that word the factors that are involved.

The bottom line is that as a means to improve communications and reduce errors, as a techniqe and practice, IT WORKS.

If your complaint was concerning some of the banal expressions such as “let’s run it up the flagpole” then in that case I would totally agree, but where the use of “human resources” or “customer facing” and the like are involved I would not.

My word, you really DO have a chip on your shoulder! You also make assumptions and suppositions and draw conclusions that are so far from reality as to be laughable.

What is it about the job of a manager that you find so unsettling? Do you actually understand what the work of a manager involves? Do you understand the difference between junior, middle, and senior management for example? From what you write it would seem not.

To start with a manager is NOT a "boss", and Ive met more than a few boss’s, in fact most of them, who were certainly not managers, but that’s another matter.

A manager is someone who makes best use of resources using established or at times novel tools and methodologies in order to achieve this.

If those resources are human resources then one set of tools and methodologies are used, if physical or energy resources, then others.
It’s all about getting the best return on investment from the guy on the line making widgets, to the CEO looking after shareholder value.

It's always possible to encounter a managemnet trainer who is a pillock or a management course from time to time that is simply stating the patently bleeding obvious, that's life, but maybe, just maybe if you actually understood what the role of a manager was you would be able to move off first base and see that what you assume to be BS are in fact proven techniques to maximise the use of resources within an organisation.

Maybe if you did you would find career opportunities opening up for you that are presently not only closed to you, but more than likely unknown by you at this time to even exist.

Then you are wrong in the correct use of the word.

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Mikeuk

That's a cracker! Can we quote you?

Human resources sounds like a great name for the lampshade factory at Auschwitz. Normal people used to refer to 'personnel department'.

Nothing, because I've been a manager in my time and I didn't need a Mickey Mouse certificate to prove it.

I have a genuine professional diploma, and that - plus experience - qualified me to manage others in the same line - sans bullsh*t.

As I have a well-paid semi full-time job doing what I'm trained to do, plus three small businesses of my own, no thanks.

British-Conservatism

I know quite a few people in human resource management.
They tend to be thick as to short planks and totally brain washed into thinking they their new found big words they use make them sound intelligent.
It would be quite amusing if it wasn’t so embarrassing.

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Mikeuk

When my branch started going down the drain they recruited a few no-hope quislings to go round from office to office spouting this garbage. The only people who paid any attention at all were people like me and my boss who were determined to stamp on it.

Then the powers-that-be announced that senior staff could apply to go on an MBA degree course. I could have applied but...need you ask? I think about 20 nationwide actually started on this. One actually wrote a glowing Bear-style screed in the staff magazine about the new horizons that were opening for him etc etc. He obviously expected promotion.

After a year Head Office dropped their support due to government cutbacks. The candidates were informed that they were no longer the chosen few, and that if they wanted to continue they would have to do so in their own time and at their own expense. Result - 20 unhappy bunnies.

When I hear the phrase 'Gap Analysis' I reach for my burp-gun.

BonnieDundee

Well certainly the Franfurt school kind has not.


It doesnt at all.

Well Orwell loved the anarcho-syndicalism so of the CNT-FAI as well and fought against Franco so it would be too much to read much into those words without context.

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Imperium

Enoch Powell was a truly great man, a man of honesty and conviction-how unlike the gravy train hangers on that occupy parliament today!
He saw clearly what would happen to Britain and he was right in everything he said in that speech!