HRM
Recognizing the human: A psychoanalytic engagement with HRM and its discontents
Introduction
‘It is joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found’
Donald Winnicott, Communicating and not communicating
To many critics and readers of this journal, the ‘human’ in HRM is hardly human. The images of Marx’s alienated proletarian, Weber’s disenchanted bureaucrat, or Foucault’s biopolitical subject are now so etched in the mind to render a practical engagement with HRM impossible. Best to abandon the enterprise altogether.