Psychoanalysis and Human Resource Management

A Depth Analysis
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-1792-6
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Since the 1980s, Human Resource Management (HRM) has risen to prominence as a highly influential area of practice and scholarship, yet critical examinations remain rare. This book applies psychoanalytic ideas to challenge HRM’s core theories and practices, exposing the dark side of organizational life and human motivation. By engaging with a broad range of psychoanalytic thinkers and theories, the book disrupts established perspectives and offers fresh insights into the field. Essential reading for scholars and practitioners, it reconfigures HRM as both an intellectual field and a site of organizational practice, offering a novel means of reshaping the ways in which we understand the subject.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gilmore, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part 1: A Psychoanalytic Analysis of Key Themes in HRM Research

1. The ‘Human’ in Human Resource Management

2. The Inevitability of Conflict

3. Strategic Human Resource Management and the Professionalisation of HRM: A Search for the Transformational Object?

4. The Devolution of HRM: The Manager As Mother

Part 2: Psychoanalysis, HRM and Work

5. Organizational Change and the Changing Nature of Work: Subjectivity and Wellbeing

6. The Family in the Firm: Sibling Rivalry and the Law of the Mother

7. Leadership and Its Discontents: Miasma, Abjection and Mourning

8. On Thinking

Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Gilmore is Professor of Organization Studies and Head of the Management, Employment and Organisation Section at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University.