People are people - not things!

Title	People are people - not things!
Weblog	Gurteen Knowledge Weblog
Posted Date	Saturday 17 May 2003 09:43 GDT
Posted By	David Gurteen
Categories	Human Resources
Technorati Tags	human resources
del.icio.us Tags	human_resources

There were four training courses and I wanted to rename each of them - to change the language that was used in talking about people.

• "Managing human resources" to "Managing people" or even to "Working with people".
• "Attracting, retaining and developing talent: a strategy for increasing human capital" to "Attracting, retaining and developing people: a strategy for helping people to develop themselves"
• "Return on investment on human capital" to "Helping people to be their best."

• Lets STOP thinking of people as resource, or talent or capital but quite simply as people!
• And lets stop talking about manipulating people but about working effectively with each other and helping and supporting each other.

But try as I might I cannot think of a better name for the most hated term of all "Human Resources"! Any suggestions?

Or maybe a paradigm shift is in order? Lets transform the concept of "HR" and then we would not need a new name!

The Gurteen Knowledge Search Engine is a customised Google search engine that searches over 800 KM related websites and weblogs.   Web gurteen.com