The (potential) demise of HRM?

• Published in: Human resource management journal Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 377 - 391
• Main Authors: Dundon, Tony, Rafferty, Anthony
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2018
• Subjects: Business schools; Capitalism; financialisation; HRM education; Human resource management; hyper‐individualism; reward; Talent management

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...