Psychoanalysis and Human Resource Management: A Depth Analysis

Sarah Gilmore

doi:10.46692/9781529217957

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. Moving beyond Freud and Lacan, it offers fresh insights, reshaping HRM as both a field and practice.

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Part I - A Psychoanalytic Analysis of Key Themes in Human Resource Management Research
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1 - The ‘Human’ in Human Resource Management
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2 - The Inevitability of Conflict
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3 - Strategic Human Resource Management and the Professionalization of Human Resources: A Search for the Transformational Object?
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4 - The Devolution of Human Resource Management: The Manager as Mother
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Part II - Psychoanalysis, Human Resource Management and Work
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5 - Organizational Change and the Changing Nature of Work: Subjectivity and Wellbeing
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6 - The Family in the Firm: Sibling Rivalry and the Law of the Mother
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7 - Leadership and Its Discontents: Miasma, Abjection and Mourning
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8 - On Thinking
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Conclusions
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Notes
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References
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Index
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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iii

Acknowledgements
pp iv-iv

Introduction
pp 1-10

Part I - A Psychoanalytic Analysis of Key Themes in Human Resource Management Research
pp 11-12

1 - The ‘Human’ in Human Resource Management
pp 13-30

2 - The Inevitability of Conflict
pp 31-48

3 - Strategic Human Resource Management and the Professionalization of Human Resources: A Search for the Transformational Object?
pp 49-65

4 - The Devolution of Human Resource Management: The Manager as Mother
pp 66-84

Part II - Psychoanalysis, Human Resource Management and Work
pp 85-86

5 - Organizational Change and the Changing Nature of Work: Subjectivity and Wellbeing
pp 87-104

6 - The Family in the Firm: Sibling Rivalry and the Law of the Mother
pp 105-122

7 - Leadership and Its Discontents: Miasma, Abjection and Mourning
pp 123-141

8 - On Thinking
pp 142-157

Conclusions
pp 158-164

Notes
pp 165-169

References
pp 170-195

Index
pp 196-202

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