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4.3 Defending the profession, with David Blackburn
UK national newspapers have called HR a "parasite," "bloated" and a "shadow empire" – and the vitriol keeps coming.
The criticism has been enough to drive the CIPD’s chief executive, Peter Cheese, to defend the profession's work in an open letter. But do the ‘HR haters’ have a point?
Or is the profession simply getting caught in the culture war crossfire?
We invited David Blackburn, who achieved the #2 HR Most Influential Practitioner ranking in 2024, on to the podcast to puzzle it out.
A chartered companion of both the CIPD and the Chartered Management Institute, Blackburn won awards for his…
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