Beating the advertising drum for the employer: How legal context translates into good HRM practice
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Date
2019
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Abstract
The legal context is constitutive for the legitimacy
of HRM practices. In this paper, we use an institutional work
approach to investigate how a legal mandate requiring em ployers to state the minimum pay in job advertisements in
Austria was translated into a legitimate HRM practice over
time. In this process, HR practitioners translated the law into
an HRM practice going well beyond the legal requirements.
In contrast to merely constraining HRM practice, we find HR
practitioners actively engaging with the legal context. In the
discursive struggle over a legitimate translation of the law
into practice, actors speaking ‘for HRM’ were mostly HRM
consultants and service providers building on an individu alist and unitarist frame of reference for employment rela tions. Our findings contribute to a contextualized under standing of HRM practices by considering the interaction of
HR practitioners and legal context
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frames of reference, HR practitioners, HRM practices