HRM as a “Web of Texts”: (Re)Articulating the Identity of HRM in Sri Lanka’s Localized Global Apparel Industry

Jayawardena, Dhammika

doi:10.1080/15416518.2014.973794

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“…Thus, the greater participation of women does not necessarily imply they are well off, or that they are better off than their peers in other developing countries. Instead they are often subject to many discriminatory processes and forces in the work milieu, such as sexual harassments and glass ceiling (Wickramasinghe & Jayatilaka, 2006;Hewamanne, 2008;Jayawardena, 2014).…”

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Place of Women in Sri Lankan Society Measures for Their Empowerment for Development and Good Governance

Herath

2015

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Despite far-reaching economic, social and political developments in Sri Lanka over the last century or so, Sri Lankan women continue to occupy a subordinate status. While women are not subjected to extreme forms of oppression, many adverse structures and forces, such as the patriarchal social structure, woman's role in the family, traditional values, rituals and myths, the division of labour and unequal pay, and women's lack of participation in politics contribute to the continuing subordination of Sri Lankan women. In this context, this article seeks to address the socioeconomic , cultural and political processes that shape the status and the progress of women in Sri Lanka. It emphasizes the policy makers to ensure that Sri Lankan women are empowered to participate in development. For this to happen, the article, however, argues that an attitudinal change and a paradigm shift in the minds of policy makers and the society at large must be accomplished.

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Place of Women in Sri Lankan Society Measures for Their Empowerment for Development and Good Governance

Herath

2015

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“…Alberti and Danaj (2017) show in a similar vein how transnational labour regulation and migration policy shape the categories and experiences of migrants working in British construction and hospitality. Jayawardena (2014) examines, drawing on Foucauldian social theory, how Western HRM discourse becomes localized and informs ‘doing’ and ‘undoing’ HRM in the Global South. He analyses multiple interrelated texts, highlighting rhetoric/reality distinctions in them, and how both culturally specific and sociopolitically formed employment management practices impact women shop-floor workers in Sri Lanka.…”

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“…Mahadevan and Kilian-Yasin, 2017; Rao, 2012). However, only two studies in our sample – both poststructuralist – are interested in low-skilled or low-wage workers (Alberti and Danaj, 2017; Jayawardena, 2014). We argue that IHRM research should be more reflexive and pay more attention to the social relations that shape its narrow interest in more privileged groups, while others, especially those dealing with the ‘dark side of globalization’, are neglected or not considered part of ‘the’ IHRM field.…”

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An empirical analysis of research paradigms within international human resource management: The need for more diversity

Kornau

Frerichs

Sieben

2020

German Journal of Human Resource Management: Zeitschrift für Pe

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The goal of this article is to provide a fine-grained analysis of international human resource management research that addresses the different perspectives applied in that research. We coded 203 peer-reviewed international human resource management articles published between 2011 and 2018 with content analytical methods guided by the compass of management research developed by Sieben, which is rooted in critical management research. We were particularly attentive to the various discursive orientations international human resource management scholars have adopted, including ideologically critical, poststructuralist, functionalist and interpretive perspectives. We further examined which methods, theoretical perspectives and topics were common within and across different perspectives. This analysis indicated that critical research intending to politicize and question existing structures and ways of organizing is still marginal. Along with the dominance of functionalist and interpretive studies, papers in our dataset commonly use a strategic human resource perspective, are predominantly interested in the human resource management–performance link and focus rather narrowly on multinational corporations and expatriates. Furthermore, while international human resource management scholars increasingly account for the contextual embeddedness of organizations through macro-level theories, they mainly apply institutional perspectives that view organizations as adapting to institutional constraints. We propose a more diverse and reflexive approach – inspired by ideologically critical and poststructuralist perspectives – that may help to overcome these blind spots. Such an approach might, for instance, look at types of organizations other than multinational corporations and individuals other than highly skilled expatriates and might explicitly bring multiple, external stakeholders into the picture. We conclude by suggesting that international human resource management research and practice would benefit from more research diversity which enables more holistic analyses of phenomena, more innovative research and resultant insights, and more space for meta-theoretical reflections.

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“…Since its emergence in the open economy, Katunayake FTZ has remained a "neoliberalized space" where global capital entwines with "local bodies" and laborspecifically of migrant women factory workers, the "factory women": "traditionally unemployed" young women from rural areas of Sri Lanka, who came en masse to the FTZ during the late 1970s in search of jobs (Devanarayana, 1997;Hettiarachchy and Schensul, 2001). Consequently, spatial production within the zone has introduced the pre-neoliberal repetitive life of factory women to hitherto unimaginable possibilities, portraying women as a "unique group" who are commonly known as lamai or kalape lamai [1] (Hewamanne, 2003(Hewamanne, , 2008Jayawardena, 2010Jayawardena, , 2014.…”

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“…Once migrated to the zone, these women had shown a tendency toward unmarried cohabitation and free sexual relationships (Hettiarachchy and Schensul, 2001;Hewamanne, 2003Hewamanne, , 2008. Also, the influx of women created a group of "service providers" whose role in the zone further complicated the landscape of the FTZ: for example, owners of boardinghouses where migrant women lodge, or "activists" who work on labor and women's issues in the zone (Devanarayana, 1997;Jayawardena, 2014).…”

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Jayawardena

2020

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Purpose This paper aims to understand the dialectical relationship between place-making and identity formation of factory women in a free trade zone (FTZ) in the Global South. Design/methodology/approach Inspired by Judith Butler’s notions of performative acts and performativity, the paper uses poststructuralist discourse analysis to analyze data – oral and written texts – generated through a fieldwork study conducted in an FTZ in Sri Lanka. Findings Performative acts and the performativity of the occupants in the FTZ demarcate the boundary of the zone and articulate the identities of its occupants. Furthermore, the study shows that, in this process, such performativity and performative acts function as a form of “glue” to amalgamate the places of the zone space as kalape, a complex socio-geographical landscape in flux. Research limitations/implications This study provides a new insight into the relationships between discursive-performative acts, place-making and identity formation of (factory) women in the neoliberalized (zone) space(s) of the Global South. Originality/value By articulating the FTZ as a (neoliberalized) space in a perpetual present, the study provides new insight into the relationships between performative acts, place-making and identity formation (of factory women) in the zone space.

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HRM as a “Web of Texts”: (Re)Articulating the Identity of HRM in Sri Lanka’s Localized Global Apparel Industry

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Place of Women in Sri Lankan Society Measures for Their Empowerment for Development and Good Governance

Place of Women in Sri Lankan Society Measures for Their Empowerment for Development and Good Governance

An empirical analysis of research paradigms within international human resource management: The need for more diversity

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