This book is a pioneering work that maps out the ideological evolution of HRM research and practices, with a particular focus on our contemporary era of multinational corporations. It explores the ideological evolution of Human Resource Management (HRM) from the 1950s to the present day and maps out the development of HRM research and practices from a Critical Theory perspective. Its findings open up avenues for metatheoretical development within the HRM research field and provide employees under modern capitalism with emancipatory awareness. Both the theoretical framework and the empirical findings of this study will be of interest to HRM researchers as well as management researchers of all epistemological backgrounds, particularly those working within Critical Management Studies. This work will also appeal to teachers and students, and it could serve as a textbook for a number of postgraduate level courses, including Organization Theory, Critical Management Studies, Human Resource Management, Business History, Sociology of Management, and Critical Theory.

Management, from a critical perspective. Critical management Studies provide a assessment against prevailing social order and management and are designed to produce better managers and fairer organisations. This Series brings together informed critiques of management, business and organization, grounded originally in critical theory perspectives. Titles included in this set: Organizing Disaster:The Construction of Humanitarianism; Organization Theory:Critical and Philosophical Engagements; Contesting Institutional Hegemony in Today's Business Schools:Doctoral Students Speak Out; The Ideological Evolution of Human Resource Management:A Critical Look into HRM Research and Practices; Making Critical Sense of Immigrant Experience:A Case Study of Hong Kong Chinese in Canada; STEM-Professional Women's Exclusion in the Canadian Space Industry:Anchor Points and Intersectionality at the Margins of Space; Values, Rationality, and Power: Developing Organizational Wisdom:A Case Study of a Canadian Healthcare Authority;