Gender in Human Resources: Hiding in plain sight
本文指出人力资源职业的性别特征被主流和批判学者忽视，认为当代HR混合了男性化和女性化编码的价值观，关注这种性别复杂性有助于理解日常互动并丰富批判性人力资源管理视角。
Abstract This paper argues an important aspect of Human Resources (HR) as an occupation has been largely overlooked by mainstream and critical scholars alike: its gendered qualities. Gender is ‘hiding in plain sight’ in the sense that its high concentration of women is obvious but has attracted only sporadic academic commentary. We suggest rather than simply a ‘feminised’ area of management, contemporary HR is a complex mix of both masculine‐coded and feminine‐coded values, priorities and norms derived from earlier traditions of welfare and personnel management as well as the later influence of strategic management. Attention to this gendered complexity can help us understand how the HR occupation is experienced in everyday interactions and provide an alternative perspective that enriches Critical Human Resource Management.