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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.
Introduction
Part 1: A Psychoanalytic Analysis of Key Themes in Human Resource Management Research
1. The ‘Human’ in Human Resource Management
2. The Inevitability of Conflict
3. Strategic Human Resource Management and the Professionalization of Human Resources: A Search for the Transformational Object?
4. The Devolution of Human Resource Management: The Manager as Mother
Part 2: Psychoanalysis, Human Resource Management 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