The (potential) demise of HRM?

This article seeks to provoke that human resource management (HRM), both as an academic field of study and as a form of professional practice, is at risk of impoverishment. The main reasoning for this is because of ideological individualism and marketisation with an attendant neglect on wider organi...

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Published inHuman resource management journal Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 377 - 391
Main Authors Dundon, Tony, Rafferty, Anthony
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2018
Subjects
Business schools
Capitalism
financialisation
HRM education
Human resource management
hyper‐individualism
reward
Talent management
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Summary:This article seeks to provoke that human resource management (HRM), both as an academic field of study and as a form of professional practice, is at risk of impoverishment. The main reasoning for this is because of ideological individualism and marketisation with an attendant neglect on wider organisational, employee, and societal concerns. Following a review of the context of financialised capitalism, three contemporary developments in HRM are used to illustrate the argument: reward strategies, talent management, and high performance work systems. Implications for the practice of HRM and the way the subject area is taught in mainstream business schools are considered. Video
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ISSN:0954-5395
1748-8583
DOI:10.1111/1748-8583.12195