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Redefining HRM through Foucauldian power relations

This book could be a good read for individuals looking to understand how HRM techniques define the concept of work and control employees' behaviour. The author draws on Michel Foucault's concepts to analyze a wide range of HRM procedures, demonstrating their impact in shaping individuals' self-identity and performance in the workplace. The book concludes by outlining a feminist and emancipatory agenda for HRM, making it an essential read for human resource managers, scholars, and students.

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ISBN: 9780803984967
Authors: Barbara Townley
Date of Publication: 1994-08-23
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Business, Sociology
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Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, this book reconceptualizes the field of human resource management (HRM) and explores an alternative politics and ethics of work. The central thesis is that personnel//HRM techniques play a crucial role in constituting the self, in defining the nature of work, and in organizing and controlling the workforce. Human resource management, it is argued, comprises a nexus of disciplinary practices - a technology of power - aimed at making employees′ behaviour and performance predictable and calculable, in a word, `manageable′. The author analyzes a wide range of HRM procedures, including job evaluation and ranking, selection, appraisal and self-assessment, relating these to
 

Redefining HRM through Foucauldian power relations

This book could be a good read for individuals looking to understand how HRM techniques define the concept of work and control employees' behaviour. The author draws on Michel Foucault's concepts to analyze a wide range of HRM procedures, demonstrating their impact in shaping individuals' self-identity and performance in the workplace. The book concludes by outlining a feminist and emancipatory agenda for HRM, making it an essential read for human resource managers, scholars, and students.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.