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The psychologisation of employment relations, alternative models of the employment relationship, and the OB turn
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As part of this journal's provocation series, John Godard criticised the psychologisation of human resource management and expressed concern with the psychologisation of employment relations. This article uses four explicit frames of reference on the employment relationship to further explicate Godard's concern with the distancing of the field from questions about the structural nature of the employment relationship. This discussion is then extended to consider the magnifying implications of the turn within the field toward organisational behaviour research. Ultimately, the complexity of work and employment means that the field needs to be vigilant in embracing not only multidisciplinary but also multiperspective approaches rather than letting the field become excessively unitary.
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“Given the increased psychologization of mainstream research in employment relations and HRM that has been well documented elsewhere (Godard 2014; Budd 2020; Kaufman 2020), we are keen to avoid the psychologization of NTWE and”
From Reflecting on 40 Years of New Technology, Work and Employment: Insights From the Current Editors on the Past and Prospects for the Future (2026) · cites this paper as Budd 2020
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Hodder, A., Valizade, D., Hardy, K., MacKenzie, R., & Smith, A. (2026) · New Technology, Work and Employment · doi:10.1111/ntwe.70054
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- Authors
- Budd, J. W.
- Affiliations
- Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies, Carlson School of Management University of Minnesota Minneapolis Minnesota
- ORCID
- Budd, John W.
- Venue
- Human Resource Management Journal
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2020-01
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 73-83
- ISSN
- 0954-5395
- 1748-8583
- Cited by
- 46
- References
- 3
- Language
- en
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