TY - JOUR
T1 - Change agency in occupational context: lessons for HRM
AU - Wylie, Nick
AU - Sturdy, A.
AU - Wright, C.
N1 - This paper is not available on the repository
PY - 2013/12/16
Y1 - 2013/12/16
N2 - Change agency is seen as a key route to reducing the occupational vulnerability of human resource management (HRM). However, few look outside of the HRM context to consider change agency more broadly in organisations. Drawing on a study of change agency units in British organisations, we argue that challenges to occupational credibility and competing jurisdictional claims have wider implications for the role of HR practitioners. In particular, change agency is better seen as replaying rather than resolving the ambiguity of HRM's role and identity in organisations.
AB - Change agency is seen as a key route to reducing the occupational vulnerability of human resource management (HRM). However, few look outside of the HRM context to consider change agency more broadly in organisations. Drawing on a study of change agency units in British organisations, we argue that challenges to occupational credibility and competing jurisdictional claims have wider implications for the role of HR practitioners. In particular, change agency is better seen as replaying rather than resolving the ambiguity of HRM's role and identity in organisations.
U2 - 10.1111/1748-8583.12028
DO - 10.1111/1748-8583.12028
M3 - Article
SN - 0954-5395
SN - 1748-8583
VL - 24
SP - 95
EP - 110
JO - Human Resource Management Journal
JF - Human Resource Management Journal
IS - 1
ER -