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Terms of Use
Acceptance of Terms A. Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc. (referred to as “the Company,” “us” or “we”), provides the IRC4HR.org website (the “Site”), which includes descriptions of past and ongoing research funded by the Company, research reports, and information about our collaboration with thought leaders and our ongoing development of knowledge and practice relating to human…
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14 – Dividing IRC: Consulting and Research Interests
In the 1950s, then-president Carroll E. French believed it would be good business to split the organization into a nonprofit that would retain the IRC name designator and a similar name for a company with the word “service” added to it.
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11 – The IRC Culture: Everyone Had a Voice
At IRC, everyone mattered, and everyone felt that our mission mattered. We were all a team.
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12 – IRC: Research and Education
In the late 1960s, IRC got a five-year research support commitment from Chevron, DuPont, Exxon, General Electric, General Motors, Gulf Oil, Procter & Gamble, Westinghouse, Western Electric, and Standard Oil of Indiana.
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13 – Automation and Human Resources
During the early 1960s, it was revolutionary to see automobiles being assembled with very few human workers in sight on an assembly line.
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7 – A Job: Defining the Core Element of Work and Organizations
I entered law school after college, and a friend from law school invited me to join him in his native Hawaii to work on a consulting project to assist the Territorial Government of Hawaii make the transition to statehood.
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1 – The Birth of Employee Relations (and the Beginnings of HR)
It may be a surprise to some people that John D. Rockefeller Jr. was a champion of what we now know as the broad field of human resources. But Rockefeller was so much more than a petroleum industry heir or even an engaged philanthropist.
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2 – The Champion of Work Relations
Among Rockefeller’s many actions was the establishment in 1926 of Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc.—renamed Innovation Resource Center for Human Resources (IRC4HR) in 2015 —as a nonprofit research and educational organization to “advance the knowledge and practice of human relations” in the workplace.
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3 – Appreciating Diversity, Experiencing Inclusion
In my school years in New York City during the early 1930s, I was exposed to schoolmates from almost every background imaginable. My friends were from diverse religious beliefs, national backgrounds, race, and economic circumstances.
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4 – Life: A Mix of Serendipity, Opportunity, and Choice
I was drafted into the Army shortly after my 18th birthday and, because of my interest and background in chemistry, the Army decided that Medical Corps basic training was a good fit with my interests. I was sent to Camp Grant, Illinois, and soon discovered that Medical Corps basic training was not for me.