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to be grounded in a ‘theory of organization.’ Managerial work generally and human resourcing work speciWcally is ‘organizing wor ...

situated social action’ which are inXuenced not only by ‘explicitly organized and formal disciplinary knowledges’ such as market ...

more eVectively’ (Starbuck 2003 : 171 – 4 ). This theme can be identiWed with the ‘opportunities’ that organizations were percei ...

Kamoche ( 2000 ) for HRM—analyzing recruitment and training within the func- tionalist paradigm before looking at HRM generally ...

helpful to identify several ‘strands’ of thinking. This mapping, it must be stressed, is produced, once again, in the spirit of ...

being designed and controlled by the expert ‘human engineer’ managers who are appointed to fulWll the organization’s ‘goals’ (Wa ...

into a non-functionalist style of analysis (i.e. one in which contingencies are given no ‘determining’ role) by Child ( 1972 , 1 ...

theoretical inadequacies of HRM ( 2001 : 1093 ). But a systems emphasis plays a signiWcant role in this work (Sanchez-Runde 2001 ...

The means chosen to achieve a certain end has become an end it itself—thus undermining the achieving of the purpose for which it ...

extracts surplus value from members of an employee class. And within this set of relations lie the seeds of the capitalist polit ...

distinction between the rhetoric and reality of HRM in contemporary debates’ which ‘essentially replays an identical relationshi ...

employment between the capacity to work and its exercise and, thereby, organize workers into a collective, productive power or f ...

Table 6.1 The contributions of four strands of organization theory to HRM Role of proto- OT in the emergence of personnel practi ...

Attention is paid to the detailed roles played by speciWc organizational actors with their particular personal values, career in ...

broken free from its earlier managerialist anchor and its concern with making organizations more competitive or eVective. HRM wr ...

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