Now if we can link HR efforts with science , it is possible to measure the HR contribution and to change the mindset ie. HR ia a support function and then we can link it with business objectives.

thanks for new perspective :)

Fast forward to my role in HR. We have to be creative and innovative with benefits, training, etc. But we also cannot ignore measurement and theory.

I still see the “soft sciences” as science, though. Science is a method, not a result. It’s a way of researching, understanding, and coming to conclusions. And the conclusions aren’t always right. The scientific method told us that the Earth was the center of the universe, that it was flat. It taught us that mice were born from garbage. Theoretical physics is in many ways less concrete as as the sciences you dub “psuedo-science.”

What makes science science is that you don’t just go on gut and forget about it. There’s an ongoing method of testing, concluding, retesting, scrapping and testing again. Overtime, the stuff that doesn’t work gets weeded out, and the stuff that does flourishes.

http://thebeautybrains.com/2009/01/29/the-beauty-of-skepticism/

They are cosmetic chemists, and they have found a really cute way to link the scientific method to beauty products. It reminded me of your post, but I still think that science is more applicable in a real laboratory and not the human laboratory we call ‘the workplace.’

xo/laurie