National Public Radio is an unusual workplace, and it presents some unusual human resources challenges. Jeff Perkins, the chief people officer for the organization, recalled ruefully meeting Mara Liasson, one its biggest-name talents, on election night in 2010.
“And she says: ‘Who are you?’” Perkins recounted on Monday during a session at the Society for Human Resources Management’s annual conference in Chicago. “Now here it is November, and I’ve been in the position since June – and she thinks [my predecessor] is still on the job. That’s a problem.” The political correspondent had been so busy doing her job across the country, she hadn’t met her new director of HR.
