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Becoming an Employee Champion

THE CHALLENGES FOR HR PROFESSIONALS acting as employee champions are many and complex, as the following anecdotes illustrate.

Remote Control

On a recent airplane flight, my seat mate looked over some of the material I was working on and started a conversation. When I said I was an HR professor and consultant, he wondered exactly what I did. He noted that his wife worked as a senior engineer at a large remote location of one of the companies for which I had worked. This company had received a great deal of public acclaim for its business results in recent years, to the point of being seen as a best practice company. ...

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