"Human Capital"

[Fabio Cecin]

Deloitte’s New Human Capital Survey Should Be a Wake-Up Call for HR

http://www.tlnt.com/2015/03/18/deloittes-new-human-capital-survey-should-be-a-wake-up-call-for-hr/

Found this on Twitter. The original link poster said:

- "Summary of (...): the workplace sucks more than ever. Leaders & HR
are not helping." -- @GianpieroPietriglieri

Which Umair Haque linked to:

- "Most work is pointless, unfair and harmful. So of course people
must be abused into doing it."

I didn't read the article. A glance over its contents reveals the
mental world the writer is in ("Human Capital" and "Human Resources"
in the same headline; terms used non-metaphorically = objectifying,
which leads to the rest of the badness), which in turn pretty much
determines that it is not going anywhere interesting.

Indeed a problem can't be solved at the same level of thinking that
created it. But what we know how to do now is redirect our human
impulses to change things in such a way that we will keep fumbling and
failing to solve a problem at the culturally-fitting level of modeling
that created it, while at the same time "feeling" that we really do
want to solve it fundamentally.

LOL point of notice is how they put the word "Culture" as a nod to the
euphemism du jour of Management Y (alongside Management X's classic
"Engagement"). So the main problem with capitalist-state licensed
servitude hierarchies is that the servants are not doing a good job of
fitting in (Culture) and obeying orders while smiling enough
(Engagement).

Fabio