How America's Corporate Culture is Destroying People's Souls

What follows will be a series of articles on the problems with America's corporate culture. While I will do my normal self-promotion in order to get more readers to it, I strongly encourage or would if the Associated Content rules would permit me other to submit it to the appropriate social book marking sites. I am far from the only person speaking out against it, but somehow the message is not getting through to the people who most need to hear it.

I was going to begin this article by criticizing Stephen R. Covey, but there are two problems with that. I have not actually read his book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, and secondly, the corporate trends that so easily allowed him to bring Mormon spirituality in the boardroom were in place long before he wrote his book.

Mormons may not like me comparing their church to a corporation or to say that the trends that made Covey so successful in the business world are evil, but while evil may be too strong a word it is an apt one. Corporations have long put in the appearance of caring about their employees by introducing words like "human resources." However, what did the human resources department replace? Personnel. At least with personnel you could not look at the word and forget you were dealing with people. Human resources appear to be an ambiguous term used by corporations today. In some cases, they may even go so far as to suggest they value their employees as resources. However, the term resource carries the connotation with it that people are there to be used up. Once they no longer have any convenience to the corporation, they are to be thrown away or discarded and left to fend for themselves.