The UK context of workplace empowerment: debating HRM and postmodernity

Malcolm Foley; Gill Maxwell; David McGillivray

doi:10.1108/14634449910298231

The UK context of workplace empowerment: debating HRM and postmodernity

Malcolm Foley, Gill Maxwell, David McGillivray

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Abstract

Offers insights into workplace empowerment by concentrating on the wider contemporary (UK) context of work, conceptualising work in the on‐going debates on human resource management (HRM) and postmodernity. Connections are made between theory and practice in HRM and postmodern critique, drawing on an empirical case study. Compares the postmodern motifs of consumerism and consumption, commodification and image projection and the HRM ideals of commitment, individuality and continuous development. Suggests that viewing HRM as discourse may enable a focus for, if not a reconciliation of, the debate between theoretical HRM and HRM in practice.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	163-177
Number of pages	15
Journal	Participation and Empowerment: An International Journal
Volume	7
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1108/14634449910298231
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 1999
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

empowerment
postmodernism
human resource management
United Kingdom

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