Lacan and the lack of humanity in HRM

Johnsen, Rasmus; Gudmand-Høyer, Marius

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“…As Burawoy (1979) suggested, employers may offer the 'illusion of choice' to employees as a subtle form of co-optation and might legitimise the more insidious side of the same technology that extends the forms for control and compliance. More probingly, Johnsen and Gudmand-Høyer (2010), from a Lacanian psychoanalytical perspective, have turned conventional 'control and compliance' arguments somewhat on their head. They suggest that instead of being coercive and alienative forms of constructing subjectivity, such processes of target setting and organisational moulding of the employee hold out the promise to fulfil a sense of 'lack' in the individual.…”

Section: Counter-mobilisation: Surveillance Self-monitoring and Virtmentioning

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Striking with social media: The contested (online) terrain of workplace conflict

Upchurch

Grassman

2016

Organization

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PostprintThis is the accepted version of a paper published in Organization. This paper has been peer-reviewed but does not include the final publisher proof-corrections or journal pagination.Citation for the original published paper (version of record):Upchurch, M., Grassman, R. (2015) Striking with social media: The contested (online) terrain of workplace conflict. The contested (online) terrain of workplace conflict AbstractIn this paper we review the workplace battleground and explore the potential of social media for mobilizing social movements in labour conflicts and beyond.By conducting a case study with empirical accounts obtained from the 2010/2011 British Airways cabin crew dispute in the UK, along with secondary sources, we discern social media in the workplace as a contested field. Inquiring into the unfolding dynamic of social media and workplace conflict, we investigate the mobilizing prospects of theoretical concepts like 'distributed discourse' and 'accelerated pluralism' through the analytical prism of our interviews (Bimber, 1998;. Our analysis of these empirical accounts will tease out certain empowering potentials in the use of social media to shape discourse and mobilize movement. However, we also note that these same communicative actions may challenge internal union authority, generate counter-mobilizing efforts and constitute an integral part in exposing both our private and working lives to the processes of marketization and commodification.

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Section: Counter-mobilisation: Surveillance Self-monitoring and Virtmentioning

confidence: 99%

Striking with social media: The contested (online) terrain of workplace conflict

Upchurch

Grassman

2016

Organization

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“…This highlights concerns around use of the term ‘human’ and its combination with ‘resource management’. In sum, there is much criticism of the way in which HRM re‐presents what it means to be a subject that is engaged, motivated, developed, appraised and retired (Johnsen and Gudmand‐Høyer, ).…”

Section: Investigating Web Images Of Hrmmentioning

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Examining Web Images: A Combined Visual Analysis (CVA) Approach

Pritchard

2020

European Management Review

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In this methodological paper I set out a framework for Combined Visual Analysis (CVA), bringing together compositional, reflexive and semiotic analysis. I explain how CVA was applied in a research project exploring the visual repertoire of human resource management (HRM). I describe each stage in detail, consider how research practice is instrumental in shaping research outcomes and reflexively explore the challenges encountered. The CVA framework provides a research protocol for those working with (in visual analytic terms) large numbers of preexisting images. It offers an approach that enables breadth and depth, while maintaining a qualitative focus on the images themselves.

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“…For instance, some have looked at symbolic death (being stripped of our status, position, salary) associated with seriously resisting the injunctions of an organization as an experience of the Real (De Cock and Böhm, 2007;Contu, 2008). Others have argued that discourses of HRM create a sense of lack in employees as they see their work role as always oriented towards building future potential (Johnsen and Gudmand-Høyer, 2010). Others still have argued that the attraction of workplace spirituality could be explained by reference to the Real (Driver, 2005).…”

Section: Lackmentioning

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Discourse of the real kind: A post-foundational approach to organizational discourse analysis

Cederström

Spicer

2013

Organization

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. In response to the postmodern invasion of organization studies, some critics have issued increasingly loud cries that we should 'get real' about organizational discourse Permanent repository linkanalysis. But what precisely do these proponents take to be the 'real'? In this paper we trace out some of the attempts of 'getting real', arguing that these approaches have some important limitations. We then explore the relevance of a post-foundational approach to discourse, which, we argue, have far reaching implications for the study of organizational discourse. We argue that such approach offers us a way of theoretically linking the 'real' with (1) the way discourses are structured around fundamental gaps, (2) how discourses are brought together through nodal points, and (3) how discourses generate affective and emotional attachment. We then offer some suggestions of how these points can be used to study the organizational processes. We conclude by reflecting on some of the limitations of this approach to studying discourse.2

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Lacan and the lack of humanity in HRM

Cited by 36 publications

References 44 publications

Striking with social media: The contested (online) terrain of workplace conflict

Striking with social media: The contested (online) terrain of workplace conflict

Examining Web Images: A Combined Visual Analysis (CVA) Approach

Discourse of the real kind: A post-foundational approach to organizational discourse analysis

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