Psychoanalysis and Human Resource Management - by Sarah Gilmore Hardcover

About the Book

Human Resource Management has grown in influence, yet critical examinations remain rare. This book applies psychoanalytic ideas to challenge its core theories, exposing the darker sides of organizational life.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"A welcome recognition of workers - including managers - as whole beings, and a challenging call to consider how to do better in putting the 'human' more centrally in human resource management." Aoife McDermott, Aston University

"If you are puzzled about what happened to the 'human' in human resource management, this is the book you need. It offers the perfect combination of conceptual sophistication and practical insight with the narrative zest of a gifted writer who actually cares about what being 'human' in modern organisations truly means." Steve Linstead, University of York

About the Author

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