Human Resources – the name is troubling

Human Value would be better. Why?

Because we shouldn’t be trying to manage humans like resources. We manage our resources which are the machines, the inputs into a process or production. We make them more efficient.

But with humans, the value doesn’t come from efficiency. The value comes from being human, doing work like a human. And that work is the work that adds value to the customer.

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