Challenges and Trends in Human Resource Management and Academic Union Advocacy
Explore the complexities of Human Resource Management (HRM) and the impact on academic institutions, along with insights on neoliberal discourse, individualism, and the role of academic unions like UCU in addressing key issues such as workloads, casualisation, and equality.
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Dr. Matt Waring Senior Lecturer in HRM and UCU Branch Chair Cardiff Metropolitan University
HRM is the generic term used to describe all elements of managing the employment relationship Yet it remains a contested approach as HRM has a Dark Side arising from tension between judgemental or developmental aspects Stimulation of individual performance motivation or exploitation?
HRM as a Hologram (Tom Keenoy 1999) Rhetorics and Realities (Karen Legge 2005) Foucauldian Control Mechanism (Townley 1993) Still Searching for definitive HRM/Performance link (Guest 2011) The Black Box of HRM (Purcell et al 2003)
HRM accords with current neoliberal discourse of managerialism, entrepreneurialism, quality, excellence, flexibility, unitarism... Difficult to argue against an ideology that claims to put people first And maybe we are a more individualistic society? (Discuss...)
Institutionalised individualism (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim 2002) individuals are liberated to take responsibility in a new modernity Falling Trade Union membership and declining TU influence Reduction in scope of collective bargaining, consultation not negotiation, driven by employers desire to cut costs
Poses a major challenge to democratic traditions of collegiality and academic identities Single Pay Spine, NSS, REF, Performance Appraisals, Target-setting, Bureaucratic control, De-Professionalisation... Expansion of non-academic managerial and support roles including HR depts (see Boden and Waring 2013)
UCU active at the local level in consultation/negotiation and increasingly representing members in grievance/disciplinary cases Recent industrial action led to increased membership of UCU (>120k) UCU campaigning around workloads, casualisation, fair pay, equality & diversity, bullying, privatisation
