When mainstream economics does human resource management: a critique of personnel economics' prescriptive ambition

Frank Bailly ()
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Frank Bailly: LASTA - Université de Rouen Normandie, France

PSL Quarterly Review, 2022, vol. 75, issue 301, 103-117

Abstract: With the impetus of Edward Lazear, personnel economics has established itself as a particularly dynamic area of mainstream labour economics. It aspires to provide the best solutions to the practical problems that human resource managers encounter. The following paper aims to do the following: summarize the criticisms of personnel economics made from the perspective of heterodox economics, add a new criticism, and show how these criticisms, taken together, lead us to conclude that modes of labour management are legitimate subjects of debate, contrary to Lazear's beliefs.

Keywords: labour economics; personnel economics; heterodox economics; prescription; imperialism; discussion of HRM decisions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B52 D21 J01 M12 M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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