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Leading HR: Harnessing Social Power

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Human Resource (HR) Departments are often seen as the enforcers of the organization; the unbendable glue that protects it from litigation and unscrupulous employees. Galbraith also wrote that “the long-term human resources role is to build social capital by creating richly connected interpersonal networks across the organization.”

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Leading HR: Harnessing Social Power

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Human Resource (HR) Departments are often seen as the enforcers of the organization; the unbendable glue that protects it from litigation and unscrupulous employees. Galbraith also wrote that “the long-term human resources role is to build social capital by creating richly connected interpersonal networks across the organization.”

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HR & Teams in Global Organizations

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Jay Galbraith writes that “the long-term human resources role is to build social capital by creating richly connected interpersonal networks across the organization” (2000, p.119). 2010, December). Is this asking too much? Galbraith, J.R. Designing the global corporation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Vanderpyl, T.H.