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Creating The Ideal Workplace (For Karl Marx).(Brief Article)

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From: Credit Union Journal
Date: 20000501
Author:Freeman, Lisa

A former Exxon human resources (HR) officer-turned-author and speaker challenged a group of credit union HR professionals to rethink their jobs and redesign the entire worker/company social contract. As the keynote speaker for CUNA HR Council's HR Summit, here, Peter Block admitted to having been part of the problem he now seeks to solve: the patriarchal world of dominion and control that HR is designed to implement. "The end goal of traditional HR is to implement this paternalistic system that is designed to control people," Block said. "What we should be doing instead is ...

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