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- Title
Beating the advertising drum for the employer: How legal context translates into good HRM practice.
- Authors
Scheibmayr, Isabella; Reichel, Astrid
- Abstract
The legal context is constitutive for the legitimacy of HRM practices. In this paper, we use an institutional work approach to investigate how a legal mandate requiring employers to state the minimum pay in job advertisements in Austria was translated into a legitimate HRM practice over time. In this process, HR practitioners translated the law into an HRM practice going well beyond the legal requirements. In contrast to merely constraining HRM practice, we find HR practitioners actively engaging with the legal context. In the discursive struggle over a legitimate translation of the law into practice, actors speaking 'for HRM' were mostly HRM consultants and service providers building on an individualist and unitarist frame of reference for employment relations. Our findings contribute to a contextualized understanding of HRM practices by considering the interaction of HR practitioners and legal context.
- Subjects
AUSTRIA; EMPLOYMENT references; ADVERTISING; EMPLOYERS; BEST practices; JOB advertising; PRACTICE of law; PERSONNEL management
- Publication
Human Resource Management Journal, 2023, Vol 33, Issue 1, p95
- ISSN
0954-5395
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1748-8583.12413