[Josteniok]

> How did HR get so much power?

I've always wondered that, too. I thought "The Strength of a Weak State: The Rights Revolution and the Rise of Human Resources Management Divisions" had some interesting inputs on this question (https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3322830/Dobbin_S...).

[swader999]

In school back in the day HR was always the lowest rung on the ladder. The ones that couldn't make it in any other program could in HR.