As technology began to penetrate the HR Marketplace, buzzwords became a feature of product marketing. As a result, the language is getting sketchier and meaning changes too fast for anyone to be able to agree on anything.
It’s really hard to get your arms around the implications of global ubiquitous DNA testing. It’s coming fast. And it won’t stay private for long. If I can find my relatives using genetic information, then the reverse is true. It won’t take long until employers will be able to make a pretty good guess. Read our feature post Genetic Testing.
As genetic information becomes clearer and more widely available, it’s going to become an issue in employment law. While there are regulations in place (see below), the data is voluminous, unwieldy and likely to be everywhere.
This stuff isn’t going to be private for very long. If I can find my relatives using genetic information, then the reverse is true. It won’t take long until employers will be able to make a pretty good guess.
It’s kind of like the fuss about driverless cars. They won’t do you a damn bit of good if you don’t know where you’re going. They’re sort of useless without that info.
If you want to do a survey that has meaningful results, you have to acquire a random sample of the universe you want to understand. The whole idea is that by randomly picking the survey subjects, you will get a result that is a meaningful representation of the whole.
It’s normal to be scared of doing it wrong. But always needing to be right is trouble. In order to maintain a universe where you are perfect, and always right, you have to make your world very tiny, so that you can control it.
For more than 25 years, China has held strategic business leadership roles in the human capital management sector. Currently CEO of the CMG Group, a consultancy supporting solutions providers in the human capital management sector, she is a sought-after speaker and thought leader in the broad human resources marketplace.
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