Dr Matt Waring Senior Lecturer in HRM and UCU Branch Chair Cardiff Metropolitan University HRM is the generic term used to describe all elements of managing the employment relationship Yet it remains a contested approach as HRM has a Dark Side arising from tension between judgemental or ID: 440728
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HRM-ism and the Managerial University
Dr. Matt Waring
Senior Lecturer in HRM and UCU Branch Chair
Cardiff Metropolitan UniversitySlide2
HRM is the generic term used to describe all elements of managing the employment relationshipYet it remains a contested approach as HRM has a ‘Dark Side’ arising from tension between judgemental or developmental aspects
Stimulation of individual performance – motivation or exploitation?
HRM ?Slide3
HRM as a Hologram (Tom Keenoy 1999)
Rhetorics
and Realities (Karen Legge
2005)
Foucauldian Control Mechanism (Townley 1993)Still Searching for definitive HRM/Performance link (Guest 2011)The ‘Black Box’ of HRM (Purcell et al 2003)
HRM’s Image ProblemSlide4
HRM accords with current neoliberal discourse of managerialism, entrepreneurialism, quality, excellence, flexibility,
unitarism
...Difficult to argue against an ideology that claims to put people first
And maybe we are a more individualistic society?
(Discuss...)But HRM Marches OnSlide5
‘Institutionalised individualism’ (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim
2002)‘individuals are liberated to take responsibility in a new modernity’
Falling Trade Union membership and declining TU influenceReduction in scope of collective bargaining, consultation not negotiation, driven by employers desire to cut costs
Individualism v. CollectivismSlide6
Poses a major challenge to democratic traditions of collegiality and academic identitiesSingle Pay Spine, NSS, REF, Performance Appraisals, Target-setting, Bureaucratic control, De-
Professionalisation
...Expansion of non-academic managerial and support roles – including HR
depts
(see Boden and Waring 2013)HRM in HESlide7
UCU active at the local level in consultation/negotiation and increasingly representing members in grievance/disciplinary cases
Recent industrial action led to increased membership of UCU (>120k)
UCU campaigning around workloads, casualisation
, fair pay, equality & diversity, bullying, privatisation
Union Response