Conceptual Part - Reviewing the LiteratureMethodology Empirical Part - Findings in Their Historical Contexts Conclusions and Discussion
Sami Itani is a Finnish management thinker who attained his Ph.D. from Aalto University School of Business (former Helsinki School of Economics) and completed part of his degree as a visiting scholar at Stanford University. In his research, Itani focuses on various topics relating to International Human Resource Management, such as expatriate knowledge sharing and the impact of language skills on career mobility. Currently Itani works as a country-level HR Director for the world’s largest staffing service provider, The Adecco Group.
Analyzing a dataset of human resource management articles published
during five decades, Itani explores the ideological evolution of
human resource management from the 1950s to the present in a
twofold manner. First he maps the development of human resource
management practices as ideological control mechanisms to
naturalize organizational power asymmetries, hence providing
employees under modern capitalism with emancipatory awareness and
opening up avenues for the theoretical development of critical
theory. Then he contributes to the meta-theoretical development of
human resource management by illuminating the ideological
dimensions and the normative ideals that human resource management
scholars create, reflect, uphold, or resist in their research.
*(protoview.com)*
"This tour de force takes us through decades of research on Human
Resource Management, providing a fascinating, and often startling,
synthesis of the ideological dimensions of this research. The book
is a must read for Human Resource Management scholars interested in
the ideological control of workers, and promises to become a
classic in this area."
*Stanford Graduate School of Business*
"Synthesising a complex body of literature, this engaging book
shows how academic discourse on HRM has developed and shifted since
the 1950s. The ideological features of HRM are deftly explored
through a detailed examination of its articulation in the longest
established HRM journal. More specifically, the book instructively
applies Giddens' formulation of five dimensions of ideology to
provide an illuminating account of the normative ideals of HRM in
the era of the multinationals."
*Cass Business School*
"Sami Itani's book is in many ways exceptional. Offering a much
needed critical theory approach to the evolution of HRM, it is
based on a unique study of the development of its practices over
time. The book is not only highly relevant for researchers and
students. It offers useful insights for reflective practitioners in
discovering what HRM has been, what it is, and what it could
be."
*Hanken School of Economics, Finland*
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