Wednesday, June 14, 2006

HR Management

As some of you know, I am taking a class at the Business school. The law school night program during the first summer session is ovvering EXACTLY the same courses as last summer, which means there's nothing being offered that I haven't already taken. So. I'm taking HR Management with a bunch of MBA types. It's a different world. There are three exams, all of which are rote memorization of definitions or lists of things. Students also have to do a presentation on a trend in HR. We do some each night. I already did mine. I talked about HR and Technology. Other have posted what they're going to talk about on the message boards. Tonight I'm looking forward to hearing about "A model of multinational enterprise subsidiary staffing composition." How very exciting! Unfortunately this is the way some of the presenters speak. I have no idea what they're talking about. Speak English please! Someone wants to talk about "American repatriate employees' retrospective assessments of the effects of cross-cultural training on their adaptation to international assignments." Why not say "Are we properly preparing US employees for work overseas? Some returning ex-pats talk about their experience." Now, isn't that better?

6 Comments:

At 4:29 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes

 
At 10:45 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

"A model of multinational enterprise subsidiary staffing composition."

I had no idea what that was either. What a fun bunch of people they must be.

Nora

 
At 4:34 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you like Eros you'll love Zucchero!

 
At 7:20 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Do you legal type really think you don't have legalspeak? Well, that could be. You two may be the only clear and simple speaking legal people in the U.S. A breath of fresh air....

 
At 1:07 PM, Blogger John said...

You're right. I get griped out in class for not using legalspeak when discussing cases. The words they use are "terms of art" and have very specific meanings.

 
At 3:51 PM, Blogger John said...

Example: instead of saying "The court declared a mistrial," say, "He gets a do-over." Heh. It makes them so mad.

 

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