Psychoanalysis and Human Resource Management

A Depth Analysis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Since the 1980s, Human Resource Management (HRM) has risen to prominence as a highly influential area of practice and scholarship, yet critical examinations remain rare. This book applies psychoanalytic ideas to challenge HRM’s core theories and practices, exposing the dark side of organizational life and human motivation. By engaging with a broad range of psychoanalytic thinkers and theories, the book disrupts established perspectives and offers fresh insights into the field. Essential reading for scholars and practitioners, it reconfigures HRM as both an intellectual field and a site of organizational practice, offering a novel means of reshaping the ways in which we understand the subject.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-10-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:452 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:206
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781529217926

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Sarah Gilmore is Professor of Organization Studies and Head of the Management, Employment and Organisation Section at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University.

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“If you are puzzled about what happened to the 'human' in human resource management, this is the book you need. It offers the perfect combination of conceptual sophistication and practical insight with the narrative zest of a gifted writer who actually cares about what being 'human' in modern organisations truly means.” Steve Linstead, University of York

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPart 1: A Psychoanalytic Analysis of Key Themes in Human Resource Management Research1. The ‘Human’ in Human Resource Management2. The Inevitability of Conflict3. Strategic Human Resource Management and the Professionalization of Human Resources: A Search for the Transformational Object?4. The Devolution of Human Resource Management: The Manager as MotherPart 2: Psychoanalysis, Human Resource Management and Work5. Organizational Change and the Changing Nature of Work: Subjectivity and Wellbeing6. The Family in the Firm: Sibling Rivalry and the Law of the Mother7. Leadership and Its Discontents: Miasma, Abjection and Mourning8. On ThinkingConclusions