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| Tekijä: | Saidy Khan, A. Ackers, P. |
| Otsikko: | Neo-pluralism as a theoretical framework for understanding HRM in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Lehti: | International journal of human resource management
2004 : NOV, VOL. 15:7, p. 1330-1353 |
| Asiasana: | Human resource management Industrial relations Sahel |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | The "social" nature of employment management problems are discussed in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). "Applied" Western HRM is largely based on unitarist conceptions of organizational reality. Where conceptions suggest a "stakeholder" perspective, they tend to follow orthodox formulations of pluralism. In that regard, notions of "stakeholding" refer to the divergent internal organizational interests (mainly economic) of labour and management. In the SSA context, however, the broader social and moral issues of the wider community have a decisive influence on the employment relationship. And internal employment relations structures, such as trade unions, do not constitute the main representative channels for employee grievances. Consequently, established Western employment frames of reference do not represent suitable theoretical frameworks for analysing all the relevant social factors that influence the SSA employment relationship. This article proposes a modified version of Ackers' (2002) "neo-pluralist" theoretical framework that as the basis for understanding and resolving some of the issues involved in HRM in SSA. |
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