Reference #90: HR Goes Agile
Bureaucracy creates consistency in a stable environments. When manufacturing firms dominated, consistent and rules-based practices — especially for talent management — ensured organisations could reliably meet five year plans.
As business has become less predictable, this approach well-aligned with a company's needs.
Cappelli, Tavis. HR Goes Agile, 2018. Reprinted in Reinventing HR, 2019. (32)