CJS4715 said:
HR departments work for the company. They are not independent folks looking out for the well-being of rank-and-file employees.
Which means they really work for the executive management team...further simplified they work for the CEO.
The risk of a company having a compromised HR staff that will only do the bidding of its CEO is not likely to happen at old companies like GE or GM who have slowly and carefully developed governance models. But it could happen at companies that are relatively young (corporate age) as in start ups like Google, Facebook etc. where the development of strong oversight is compromised to urgent growth. Also if the executive management and the staff are relatively young that increases the chances. Then when you add an iconic boss who is unusually powerful at the company he founded (they all owe him their fortunes) like we see at many Silicon Valley companies you have the prescription for disaster.
I've worked my entire life in technology and one of them was an explosive start up that made everyone rich. That company had an explemplar CEO but still the sexual atmosphere was out of control for the exec management team.
So I'm sure there are some CEO's right now in the Valley who are working feverishly to sweep aside the trail of sexual assault victims they have created...probably through stock options, etc. That wave is coming next (after we go through the music industry).
