Human Resources (HR) departments are widely
disliked, and job searchers are generally advised to
contact the hiring manager directly if they really want
to be considered for a job. There are good reasons why HR
acts like an arm of the government bureaucrats pressuring
companies to hire more protected minorities and
women--because that's what they are, in many
companies.
From the bestselling author of Avoidant
comes a fresh look at HR and the hiring of mediocre
employees favored by affirmative action programs. It's a
new Age of Incompetence, with brain-dead, unaccountable
employees holding sinecures at the heart of our
government agencies and regulated institutions like banks
and hospitals, protected by affirmative action and union
policies. The rot is spreading as pressure from state and
federal regulation of companies has increased, promoting
an internal compliance bureaucracy that has devalued the
best job candidates and employees and promoted
affirmative action and diversity over team
productivity.The result has been ever-more-costly
failures and a steep decline in performance. From the
mortgage meltdown that brought down the world's economy
in 2008, to the disastrous launch of the healthcare.gov
website for Obamacare, major segments of business and
government in the US have grown more expensive and less
competent over the past few decades. Billions of dollars
of waste in government contracts for IT projects, weapons
systems, and deadly service failures at the VA are in the
news every day. Public schools are widely seen as
mediocre, and in the poorest urban districts they are
failing to provide a decent education for the students
who need good schools the most to make up for bad family
backgrounds. Costs for regulated services like schools,
colleges, medical insurance, drugs, courts, prisons, and
infrastructure like roads and bridges rise far faster
than inflation, while time to complete major projects
stretches out to decades, and many fail completely and
are cancelled after billions have been spent. And the rot
is spreading as government pushes businesses to adopt
similar employment policies, with HR enforcing government
mandates that compromise competitiveness and give
overseas companies the advantage.
Silicon Valley and the tech industries are the next
targets. If you're a manager at a tech company, we'll
suggest some ways to protect your people from HR and its
emphasis on credentials and affirmative action (AA) over
the best fit for a position. Corporate leaders need to be
sure their HR departments are managed to prevent
infiltration by staff more interested in correct politics
than winning products. And we'll show why appeasement of
diversity activists is a dangerous strategy that may make
your organization a target for further extortionate
demands.
The next battlefield after high tech is discretion in
hiring--which the activists believe must be limited to
force employers to hire any candidate "qualified" for a
job as soon as they apply. Only a few radicals are
proposing this kind of blind hiring now, but continuing
successes in getting firms to bow to their diversity
demands will result in a list of new demands. We have
already seen Seattle pass an ordinance requiring
landlords to rent apartments to the first applicant who
qualifies. And similar movements in hiring--supposedly to
prevent discrimination by eliminating management choice
of who to employ--are coming soon.
This book may make you angry, but it will show you how
you can fight back by resisting HR and its policies.