S10E11: Why Don’t They TRUST HR: The Day that Forever Changed America’s Culture

I truly believe that the HR department is ideally positioned to build trust in the company. I really do. But the first step for HR to be building trust in the organization is for HR to be trusted by the employees. Unfortunately, they are not. A study showed that 75% of employees don’t trust that their HR leader cares about their needs , and only 9% felt their HR leader would advocate for them, while 37% felt HR was more concerned about advocating for the organization.

But why is that? It’s simple: the employees don’t hire, fire, or pay the salaries of HR employees. Management does, and management is more concerned with legal compliance in the employment area than building trust.

And why is that? What if I told you that we have a culture of litigation in whish 2.3% of our GDP is spent on civil litigation, and that the top litigation area is employment?

But what if I told you that this culture of litigation is caused by a single event that happened one night, just over 50 years ago? That question gave me my first TEDx talk in 2018, and after the first part of this podcast episode, I included that entire TEDx talk. The link to the actual TEDx talk video: https://www.ted.com/talks/yoram_solomon_the_day_that_forever_changed_american_culture_yoram_solomon_tedxoaklawn