Kierkegaard, Organizational Socialization and HRM: Edifying Employees through the Communication of Capability

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Abstract

This paper reviews HRM and organizational socialization theory, practices and research. It then reviews critiques of such practices, connecting Foucault's concept of power/knowledge and Kierkegaard's leveling. Finaly it proposes the Kierkegaard's communication of capability provides new possibilities for HRM and organizational socialization via the communication of capability.

Author

• Andrew Herrmann, University of Missouri, Columbia