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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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

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