FOUCAULT, POWER KNOWLEDGE, AND ITS RELEVANCE FOR HUMAN-RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: TOWNLEY, B
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.2307/258907
• 发表日期: 1993
• 页码: 518-545
• 关键词: organizations; revolution

摘要

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.