Random Questions

• Are most organizations in search of excellence or in search of comfort?
• If everyone knows that performance evaluations are usually flawed, why do organizations pretend that they are accurate?
• Is it too much to expect that the chief executive officer, even in large organizations, visit and walk through the major facilities at least once a year?
• How many important management decisions are made simply because people are tired and want to go home?
• How many supervisor-employee relationships are like bad marriages in which each spouse tries to avoid the other?
• Can you name three recent movies in which a corporate executive was portrayed in a positive light?
• Why do universities have such terrible Human Resources practices?
• Does your organization's culture have a hierarchy of status based upon salary level or upon the seriousness of responsibilities? (And no, they are not the same.)
• If your organization favors a certain personality type, what is it?
• If we know that a problem employee will not improve, is it ethical to keep that person on board for the next eight months while we go through the charade of reformation?
• Doesn't preferential hiring to achieve diversity risk lessening or removing the stigma of race or sex discrimination?
• Are the ethical sins of your organization primarily ones of commission or omission?
• Why are so many personnel departments regarded as anti-personnel departments?
• Is it ethical for organizations to have "Siberias" to which employees who have incurred disfavor are assigned?
• What future crises are lurking backstage right now that will cause everyone to say, once they explode, "Why didn't we notice that?"
• If jobs shape people, how is yours shaping you?