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Maybe HR tends to complicate the process to expand its power and justify its existence. There is this "law" that proclaims this is what happens in bureaucratic
by spacko 11y ago
Maybe HR tends to complicate the process to expand its power and justify its existence.
There is this "law" that proclaims this is what happens in bureaucratic organisations - hierarchies tend to be grown for that purpose.
- walshemj 11y agoExactly read the laundry files
- analog31 11y agoParkinson's Law -- an amusing read, even if quaint. The same book also gave rise to the contemporary term "bikeshedding."
- spacko 11y agoParkinson's Law states that work is expanded to fill the available time. The law I refer to is that the time itself with work to be filled is expanded - for the purpose of requiring more human and non-human resources - which again requires expanding the hierarchy - which expands the power of those who cause this process (as the newly hired people will be added below those "managers").
- analog31 11y agoQuite true. I should have italicized Parkinson's Law, the book. Parkinson spends a number of short chapters discussing the expansion of hierarchies, with historical examples.
- dublinben 11y agoThis seems highly related to Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bureaucracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bu...