Gender in Human Resources: Hiding in plain sight
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2020
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Abstract
This paper argues an important aspect of Human Resources
(HR) as an occupation has been largely overlooked by main stream and critical scholars alike: its gendered qualities.
Gender is ‘hiding in plain sight’ in the sense that its high
concentration of women is obvious but has attracted only
sporadic academic commentary. We suggest rather than
simply a ‘feminised’ area of management, contemporary
HR is a complex mix of both masculine-coded and femi nine-coded values, priorities and norms derived from earlier
traditions of welfare and personnel management as well as
the later influence of strategic management. Attention to
this gendered complexity can help us understand how the
HR occupation is experienced in everyday interactions and
provide an alternative perspective that enriches Critical
Human Resource Management
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critical HRM, HR occupation, HR practitioners, HRM function