1st Edition

Critical Human Resource Management People Management Across the Global South and North

By Dhammika Jayawardena Copyright 2021
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

Human resource management (HRM) is the predominant apparatus for people management across the world. Since its inception, HRM has nevertheless been subjected to critical scrutiny. This work has produced a corpus of literature now referred to as ‘Critical HRM’. This book on Critical HRM traces the development of the critical scholarly tradition in people management. It analyzes, organizes and... Read more

1. Introduction 2. The Factory System, Personnel Management, HRM: A genealogy 3. This Thing called HRM: A critical introduction 4. The Language of HRM: Beyond the rhetoric/reality dualism 5. Gender and Critical HRM: Feminist critics’ account of HRM 6. Michel Foucault and Critical HRM: Towards a Foucauldian analysis of people management 7. The Global South and Critical HRM: The ambivalence of HRM 8. Ethics and Critical HRM: A rethinking of the (im-)possibility of ethics in HRM 9. Mobility, Diversity and HRM: A revisit 10. Conclusion

Biography

Dhammika Jayawardena is Senior Lecturer in Management and Organizational Behavior at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.