Divergence in HR Functional Roles in Local Government

Sara Lindström and Sinikka Vanhala

Public Management Review, 2011, vol. 13, issue 7, 1023-1040

Abstract: In spite of a growing body of research on the position and role of HRM and the HR function in organizations, local government HRM has not received the attention it deserves. This article contributes to research on the role of the HR function by deploying a discursive perspective on how HR managers construct their function's role in the context of Finnish local government. Five discourses are located in the talk of HR managers, which show emerging discursive tensions and contradictions in the roles of the HR function in local government.

Date: 2011
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