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{{A|people|}}{{g}}If a name change is the best way to "reboot the franchise", odds are the basics of the business are suspect. For better or worse, [[sales]] will forever be [[sales]]; [[trading]] resolutely [[trading]], and even dear old [[legal]] will always be [[legal]] <ref>Office of the [[General Counsel]] notwithstanding. </ref>, but the good people of [[personnel]] can't help reinventing themselves. In the heady days before [[investment banking]] become an embarrassing career choice they were “[[human capital management]]”; as the {{t|dogma}} of automation began to bite they became “[[human resources]]” | {{A|people|}}{{g}}If a name change is the best way to "reboot the franchise", odds are the basics of the business are suspect. For better or worse, [[sales]] will forever be [[sales]]; [[trading]] resolutely [[trading]], and even dear old [[legal]] will always be [[legal]] <ref>Office of the [[General Counsel]] notwithstanding. </ref>, but the good people of [[personnel]] can't help reinventing themselves. In the heady days before [[investment banking]] become an embarrassing career choice they were “[[human capital management]]”; as the {{t|dogma}} of automation began to bite they became “[[human resources]]”; as that fad, ''inshall'ah'', blew itself out, they rebranded as some kind “directorate of [[talent acquisition]]”. The most fantastical [[LinkedIn]] job descriptions will be claimed by lifers from [[personnel]]. | ||
Some have claimed [[human resources]] departments are some kind of [[extended phenotype]] — an adaptation that the rest of us depend upon for our own survival. The better view is that ''we'' are an [[extended phenotype]] of ''theirs'' (in the same way that wheat domesticated homo sapiens and not vice versa). | Some have claimed [[human resources]] departments are some kind of [[extended phenotype]] — an adaptation that the rest of us depend upon for our own survival. The better view is that ''we'' are an [[extended phenotype]] of ''theirs'' (in the same way that wheat domesticated homo sapiens and not vice versa). |