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HR Most Influential Podcast
HR Most Influential Podcast
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The HR Most Influential podcast speaks to some of the practitioners, academics and consultants making up HR magazine's annual HR Most Influential list, which celebrates instrumental figures in the people profession.
We’ll be asking them to pull back the curtain on their working lives and explore the major issues facing the world of work.
HR Focus Podcast
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HR Focus dives into practical issues surrounding HR leaders. Interviewing expert guests, and bringing them questions from our own audience,
HR Most Influential Podcast
4.3 Defending the profession, with David Blackburn
UK national newspapers have called HR a "parasite," "bloated" and a "shadow empire" – and the vitriol keeps coming.
The criticism has been enough to drive the CIPD’s chief executive, Peter Cheese, to defend the profession's work in an open letter. But do the ‘HR haters’ have a point?
Or is the profession simply getting caught in the culture war crossfire?
We invited David Blackburn, who achieved the #2 HR Most Influential Practitioner ranking in 2024, on to the podcast to puzzle it out.
A chartered companion of both the CIPD and the Chartered Management Institute, Blackburn won awards for his work as a chief people officer before moving into consulting.
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Useful links:
“Bloated HR is more about woke than wealth” The Times, 4 Dec 24 https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/bloated-hr-is-more-about-woke-than-wealth-f3x6r2th3
“How HR captured the nation” New Statesman, 27 Nov 24 https://www.newstatesman.com/business/2024/11/hr-britain-how-human-resources-captured-the-nation
“A shadow HR empire runs Britain – and it's getting bigger” The Telegraph, 2 Dec 24
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/12/02/shadow-hr-empire-runs-britain-its-getting-bigger/
Peter Cheese responds to criticism of the profession, CIPD LinkedIn, 6 Dec 24
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cipd_cipd-hr-peopleprofessionals-activity-7270732444188688384-Omml/