In the latest issue of Human Resource Management Journal we have gathered a collection of four articles that represent a conversation around the 'psychologization' of the human resource management (HRM) and employment relations (ER) fields of study.
In their initial provocation Ashlea Troth and David Guest make the case for psychologization. In their responses, John Budd highlights alternative approaches to conceptualizing the nature of the employment relationship, and Bruce Kaufmann discusses the real challenges of psychologization focusing specifically on the HRM and performance literature. The final article, from John Godard, responds to this debate and builds on his original 2004 provocation paper which inspired this conversation.
You can access all papers in this conversation for free, on the HRMJ website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1748-8583.PsychHRM
If you want to join in the debate, find us on twitter (@HRMJournal) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hrmj/) or of course you can submit your own empirical or theoretical response to the pages of HRMJ.
On behalf of the editorial team,
Dr Rebecca (Bex) Hewett
Assistant Professor – Human Resource Management
Associate Editor (Communications) – Human Resource Management Journal
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Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University
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