Wots in a name?

posted: 7th May 2009. by Steve Daysh, Director, Daysh Consulting.

A look at a number of university websites would indicate that once again the management of a university’s ‘personnel’, oops! I mean ‘human resources’ Nope, wrong again… ‘people’, is undergoing change. Yes, after starting out as ‘Personnel’ sections in the 60’s and 70’s and moving to ‘Human Resources’ in the 80’s and 90’s, the rebadged kids on the block are called ‘People and Culture’ or ‘People and Management’ and maybe somewhere hidden in the darkest corner of the Registry (yes! they still ...

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