Jon Ingham (http://strategic-hcm.blogspot.com/2008/10/banking-bonuses.html) has posted an interesting piece on banking bonuses. In his characteristically intelligent way, he presents us with some really very interesting ideas.

What strikes me as interesting is the relative absence, Jon aside, of hand-raising by HR in the media. Surely, if ever there was a time for HR to stand up and be counted in the wider world it is now, while pretty much everyone on the planet is discussing banking bonuses? When else did an HR issue so dominate global headlines?

HR experts should be lining up to give the media their view on what, if anything, has gone wrong with banking bonuses, on why you have to ensure that executive and shareholder interests are aligned, why What You Measure Is What You Get etc. Above all else, this is HR's moment to show the world why HR (or decent HR at least) is not the bollocks that most people have it down as.

But so far, silence.

Why?