HRM Practices and Agendas for Equality in Global-South Contexts

• DOI: 10.5465/ambpp.2022.16765abstract
• Publication Date: 2022-07-06T15:16:00Z
• Authors: Chidozie Umeh; Ashique Ali Jhatial; Eric Pezet; James Wallace; Nelarine Cornelius
• Keywords: Elite

Although macro-social influences on managerial and international HRM practices have been extensively reported in the literature, alignments contentions between these post-colonial states are, however, poorly understood. This paper examines role of traditional Western-informed, non-traditional, elite managers introducing progressing universal agendas, under a Praetorian regime Pakistan. In-depth interviews were conducted with professionals, union representatives, working Pakistani public private sectors multinational organisations. Through lens Foucauldian discourse, analyses revealed coexistence global-HRM orientated how their impacted employees’ experience equality inequality within intertextual `union` is predicated dynamics hierarchical heterarchical relations power resistance organisation, imbrication, or interleaving, local history culture, global influential practices. Our findings suggest need for greater consideration social practices, including forms subjectivity, meanings, relations, when managing human resources to achieve organisations countries.