Journal Article10.5465/AMR.1993.9309035149
Foucault, power/knowledge, and its relevance for human resource management
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TL;DR: The authors argue that human resource management (HRM) may be best understood as a discourse and set of practices that attempt to reduce the indeterminacy involved in the employment contract, and reread HRM practices from a Foucauldian power-knowledge perspective.
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Abstract: Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault. I argue that human resource management (HRM) may be best understood as a discourse and set of practices that attempt to reduce the indeterminacy involved in the employment contract. Here I reread HRM practices from a Foucauldian power-knowledge perspective and suggest that this provides an avenue to reorient contemporary, historical, and comparative analyses of the area.
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