Editor’s Note: This week, TLNT is counting down the most popular posts of 2010. This is No. 23 in our Top 25. We’ll continue to do this through New Year’s Eve. Our regular content will return on Monday January 3, 2011.

See two (2) updates below.

Here’s a good question: Just what was it that got the Board of the Society for Human Resource Management so worked up?

Saturday’s post here at TLNT about a memo from SHRM Board Chair Robb Van Cleave that was sent to SHRM State Council Directors and Chapter Presidents, said that it was in response to the actions of ”a small group of SHRM members” who ”have indicated that they may launch a website designed to raise the group’s concerns to a larger audience,” as he put it.

This “small group,” called SHRM Members for Transparency and Trust — is made up of a number of respected former SHRM Board members, executives, and current SHRM members. They have expressed concerns (that are growing and getting louder) about the current SHRM Board’s seeming lack of transparency and refusal to stand up and publicly explain what it is doing — particularly the June vote to increase pay and perks for Board members, the lack of open discussion about the thinking behind the decision to increase SHRM’s annual dues during the ongoing economic downturn, and, the decision to make future dues increases “every two years based on average increases in the CPI.” Read more…