Searching for the human in human resource management

A highly original collection penned by leading critical thinkers in the field of organization studies and HRM, each concerned to resituate people at the heart of HRM and organizational analysis. It offers contributions in three key areas: theory, practice and workplace contexts

Beyond the control resistance debate: a fresh look at experiences of work in the new economy

The purpose of this short paper is to introduce the special issue and outline its major themes. The control-resistance literatures are described, and the necessity for field-led empirical accounts is amplified, as a precursor to introducing the contributions to this special issue. Forms of control co-mingle and the old imprints the new. Theories of control, resistance, agency and consent can most usefully be expanded by engaging with empirical accounts, resisting duality, and embracing multidimensionality. This paper offers a review of the state of debate about control and resistance within organisation studies, and calls for field-informed accounts and fresh perspectives

Beginning the search for the H in HRM

Provides an accessible overview of central concerns in the field. Searching for the Human in Human Resource Management would be suitable for reflective practitioners as well as students of HRM intersted in getting a comprehensive overview of current thinking in critical HRM

Risky business: re-thinking the human in interactive service work

Challenges the traditional way in which the management of people is often viewed solely within an economic framework by acknowledging that human relations are social, reciprocal, multi-dimensional and embedded in group and societal dynamics

Work matters: critical reflections on contemporary work

Work Matters brings together a strong collection of narratives from the ethnographic field to discover the reality of pressure and change in the modern workplace. Chapter-by-chapter, experts in the field of work and employment examine empirical accounts and explain the forces shaping today's organisations through a critical, contemporary perspective. The result is a powerful compendium of voices that will provoke a reassessment of work trends and inform the future of policy and managerial practice

Protein growth rate in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is negatively correlated to liver 20S proteasome activity.

The efficiency with which fish and other animals add and maintain body proteins is a balance between synthesis of proteins and their degradation. In fish that have similar food consumption and protein synthesis rates, a greater ratio of synthesis to degradation would be expected to produce more efficient conversion of food into growth. In addition, we hypothesised that high activities of the proteasome, a major pathway of protein degradation, would be negatively correlated with growth rate. In order to test this hypothesis we maintained rainbow trout for 62 days, during which repeat measurements of food consumption and growth were made. We selected fish for high and low growth efficiencies. Protein degradation was estimated from the difference between protein synthesis (determined by 15N flux) and protein growth. We found that protein synthesis rates were significantly higher in the low growth efficiency group, as were estimated protein degradation rates. In another group of fish that also did not differ in food consumption, the activity of the proteasome in the liver, but not in the muscle, was negatively correlated with growth rates. These two experiments showed that high proteasome activity is linked to decreased growth&nbsp;efficiency.</p