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This book
is a pioneering work that maps out the ideological evolution of HRM research
and practices, with a particular focus on our contemporary era of multinational
corporations. It explores the ideological evolution of Human Resource
Management (HRM) from the 1950s to the present day and maps out the development
of HRM research and practices from a Critical Theory perspective. Its findings
open up avenues for metatheoretical development within the HRM research field
and provide employees under modern capitalism with emancipatory awareness.
Both the theoretical framework and the empirical findings of this study will be of interest to HRM researchers as well as management researchers of all epistemological backgrounds, particularly those working within Critical Management Studies. This work will also appeal to teachers and students, and it could serve as a textbook for a number of postgraduate level courses, including Organization Theory, Critical Management Studies, Human Resource Management, Business History, Sociology of Management, and Critical Theory.
Price: $123.99
Pages: 320
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication Date:
22 September 2017
ISBN: 9781787433908
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
Human Resources
,
Organizational Development
,
Management
Analyzing a dataset of human resource management articles published during five decades, Itani explores the ideological evolution of human resource management from the 1950s to the present in a twofold manner. First he maps the development of human resource management practices as ideological control mechanisms to naturalize organizational power asymmetries, hence providing employees under modern capitalism with emancipatory awareness and opening up avenues for the theoretical development of critical theory. Then he contributes to the meta-theoretical development of human resource management by illuminating the ideological dimensions and the normative ideals that human resource management scholars create, reflect, uphold, or resist in their research.
Sami Itani is a
Finnish management thinker who attained his Ph.D. from Aalto University School
of Business (former Helsinki School of Economics) and completed part of his
degree as a visiting scholar at Stanford University. In his research, Itani
focuses on various topics relating to International Human Resource Management,
such as expatriate knowledge sharing and the impact of language skills on
career mobility. Currently Itani works as a country-level HR Director for the
world’s largest staffing service provider, The Adecco Group.
Conceptual Part - Reviewing the Literature
Methodology
Empirical Part - Findings in Their Historical Contexts
Conclusions and Discussion