Limp norms
from Your 12 minute HR lesson Hosted by Dr Damian Treanor, Pragmatic HRM
This episode explores the often-overlooked role of workplace norms—those unwritten rules that sit between formal law and policy. Using the example of raising your voice at work, it highlights how expectations vary in rigidity and enforcement, and how HR professionals must constantly judge when to tolerate, nudge, or correct behaviour. Drawing an unexpected parallel with Limp Bizkit and their controversial song Break Stuff, it argues that society may now enforce norms more strictly than in the past, raising questions about where the line should be—and who decides.
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