What is it...
with HR professionals and Cats?
The wicked VP - HR in Dilbert is a cat.
I am a HR guy, I love cats.
This is much like the conversation I had the other day with a researcher. Helped me get my frame in place.
My thought was a corollary of an article in TOI. The article spoke about employees with a 'bad' attitude. Out of my experience, I knew that more often than not, this titled is splotched on employees who seem to have a low tolerance to show of authority. Sounds familiar? You bet!!
Read up on Hofstede's 5 dimensions and one finds that he defines power-distance bottom up not top down. That is, the tolerance that a person / society has towards others exhibiting power-distance. I have put it very loosely described. Read up more on what he has written when you have time.
Coming back, I proposed a hypothesis on my thought - employees branded as having 'bad attitude' more often than not seem to have a low power distance. The researcher's perspective on this disproved it in a minute. How? Think about it and leave a comment. Will tell you if you are on track.
Siddhu
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