A managers roots
2013-01-25
Business in the industrial age required us to check our personality at the
door.
Come on in and be a resource, a human resource. Which makes sense when humans
were coming in to complement the machinery.
The root manage has its' origin in manège, which if you look up means, 'The
art of breaking, training, and riding horses'.
The line manager was the person who sat at the end of the production line
ensuring compliance with the strict system of production. Breaking, training
and riding people.
How does this fit with today's knowledge workers and why do we still use these
antiquated terms?
No wonder so many companies still expect us to leave our personality's at the
door.
Human resources implies bring the human but leave the humaness.
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