HRM and Critical Social Science Analysis

ABSTRACT  In her early work on personnel management, Karen Legge showed the way forward for a non‐prescriptive and critical analysis of employment management practices. Legge has developed this concern in subsequent work and given it a wider focus by setting her analysis of HRM in its broad socio‐po...

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Published in:Journal of management studies 2004-05, Vol.41 (3), p.447-467
Main Author: Watson, Tony J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Business studies
Criticism
Human resource management
Human resources
Management science
Management techniques
Management theory
Organization theory
Personnel management
Social sciences
Studies
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Summary:ABSTRACT  In her early work on personnel management, Karen Legge showed the way forward for a non‐prescriptive and critical analysis of employment management practices. Legge has developed this concern in subsequent work and given it a wider focus by setting her analysis of HRM in its broad socio‐political context. A great deal of the academic HRM literature has tended not to follow this lead, however, and often remains prescriptive, functionalist and uncritical. Even when HRM analysis does set out to be critical, it can be seen as out of touch with important developments in social science thinking. A scheme for undertaking critical social scientific analysis is developed to overcome some of these difficulties and this is applied to a narrative of HRM strategy‐making in Moddens Foods.
ISSN:0022-2380
1467-6486
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2004.00440.x