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CHAPTER ONE
Human Leverage
‘‘We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have
thinking without facts.’’
—J
OHN
D
EWEY
The Shift
No longer is management of the human resources depart-
ment a human resources issue. When personnel and train-
ing came into being during the 1930s, it was in response to
the growing strength of organized labor. The main contribu-
tion of personnel and industrial relations was to deal with
that incursion. After World War II, as corporations ex-
panded, there was a need for someone to handle the admin-
istrative issues around employees. Personnel got the job. By
the late 1960s, it was becoming clear that there were more
complex ...