HR specialists in the spotlight: aggregating popular culture representations to highlight the underlying occupational image
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| Název: | HR specialists in the spotlight: aggregating popular culture representations to highlight the underlying occupational image |
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| Autoři: | Bissola, Rita, Imperatori, Barbara |
| Zdroj: | Employee Relations: The International Journal. 44:129-148 |
| Informace o vydavateli: | Emerald, 2022. |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Témata: | 0502 economics and business, 05 social sciences, Occupational prestige, Occupational representations, HR representations, Popular culture, HR occupational image, Legitimation |
| Popis: | PurposeThis study adopts the popular culture lens to investigate the collective understanding behind the human resources (HR) occupations.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical study analyzes 129 characters from 87 movies, television (TV) series, books and comics. The measurement model was tested using structural equation modeling and cluster analysis identified five HR representations in the popular culture.FindingsPopular culture reflects five HR representations: The Executor, the Hero, the Buddy, the Bore, and the Good-time person. Results suggest that public opinion pays scarce attention to the so-called HR “strategic position” while underlining the need for a more socially responsible HR approach.Originality/valueThe authors' study serves as a means for integrating past research on HR role and reputation, occupational image, self-identity and popular media. While most scholars have addressed popular culture as a single case and paid almost no attention to the HR domain, this article complements the literature by offering a fruitful way to distil HR summative popular culture representations, thus advocating for both a theoretical and a methodological contribution. |
| Druh dokumentu: | Article |
| Popis souboru: | application/pdf |
| Jazyk: | English |
| ISSN: | 0142-5455 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/er-12-2021-0529 |
| Přístupová URL adresa: | https://hdl.handle.net/10807/218109 https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-12-2021-0529 |
| Rights: | Emerald Insight Site Policies CC BY |
| Přístupové číslo: | edsair.doi.dedup.....abfebc6a404177f166788c5ab5c7f99d |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | PurposeThis study adopts the popular culture lens to investigate the collective understanding behind the human resources (HR) occupations.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical study analyzes 129 characters from 87 movies, television (TV) series, books and comics. The measurement model was tested using structural equation modeling and cluster analysis identified five HR representations in the popular culture.FindingsPopular culture reflects five HR representations: The Executor, the Hero, the Buddy, the Bore, and the Good-time person. Results suggest that public opinion pays scarce attention to the so-called HR “strategic position” while underlining the need for a more socially responsible HR approach.Originality/valueThe authors' study serves as a means for integrating past research on HR role and reputation, occupational image, self-identity and popular media. While most scholars have addressed popular culture as a single case and paid almost no attention to the HR domain, this article complements the literature by offering a fruitful way to distil HR summative popular culture representations, thus advocating for both a theoretical and a methodological contribution. |
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| ISSN: | 01425455 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/er-12-2021-0529 |