letter from the editor
CULTURE IS KING VOLUME 31 / NUMBER 5 JULY/AUGUST 2014
Since HR Professional first landed on my desk at the end of
2013, organizational culture is something that I think about
every day, in some form or another. It’s there whether you re-alize
it or not, and once I really became conscious of it, it was
hard not to analyze the culture of my own workplace and try
to find where improvements might need to be made.
Of course, the topic of organizational culture has woven its
way throughout many articles in HR Professional in the past
few issues and prior. Culture’s omnipresence in the workplace
is inescapable; however, when the July/August issue of the
magazine was slated as taking on the culture theme, I was both
excited and a little bit nervous. How do we capture culture in
an article? With the help of Bonnie Flatt, LLB, CPCC, PCC,
SHRP, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board and pro-fessed
“Cultural Yoda,” we mapped out our cover feature, and
I hope you enjoy what writer Melissa Campeau put together.
Find it on page 20.
The other article from this issue that I’ll highlight here brings
up an activity that each of us will relate to: sitting. How many
hours a day do you spend sitting at your desk? With summer
finally coming, the opportunities to move your body are more
frequent, and getting away from a sedentary lifestyle is critical
for our health. In our office at Lester Communications, we’ve
implemented a company-wide walking challenge, which mo-tivates
us to consciously think about getting up and walking
around during the day. For information about what sitting all
day does to our bodies, turn to Heather Hudson’s article on
page 47, and consider this a friendly reminder to get up from
your desk more often.
As always, I hope you enjoy and learn from this issue of HR
Professional, and I’m waiting for your thoughts. Please feel free
to send me an email, or tweet me at @hrpromag; I look for-ward
to your feedback. ■
Thanks for reading,
Jill Harris
P: 866-953-2182
E: jharris@lesterpublications.com
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