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FROM PRODUCTION TO ABSTRACTION – HRM AS DESKILLING AND CULTURAL ERASURE -…
FROM PRODUCTION TO ABSTRACTION – HRM AS DESKILLING AND CULTURAL ERASURE
Industrial foundation (1945–1970s)
Craft skill as authority
Shop-floor negotiation
Union presence
Local custom and practice
Embedded learning and identity
Transition drivers
Global competition
Technological change
Managerial expansion
Standardisation pressures
EPRG model (Perlmutter, 1969)
Cultural integration rhetoric
HRM professionalisation (1970s–1990s)
Personnel feminisation
Translation between cultures
Policy codification
Competency frameworks
Behavioural control
Shift to service economy (1990s–2000s)
Outsourcing
Deindustrialisation
Loss of craft communities
Knowledge work replaces manual production
HR as administrative governance
Global HRM doctrine
Geocentric alignment
Best-practice standardisation
Global mobility and talent management
Cultural difference reframed as “diversity”
Consequences
Deskilling of national workforce
Detachment from production
Displacement of identity
Managerial monoculture
Neutral language hides power
Modern workplace legacy
Procedural compliance
No collective memory of production
HR as custodian of ideology
Emotional labour replaces technical skill
Workforce managed through culture not craft