دانلود رایگان مقاله ارتش خود ما: قانونی بودن موقعیت حرفه ای HR از طریق رفاه در محل کار

Abstract

This article focuses on how HR practitioners legitimate their position in municipal organizations through the discourse of well-being at work. I show how HR practitioners draw upon the desirability and appropriateness of well-being as a value of work life in municipalities and the wider societal context. I also show how, as a result, they reflect and reinforce formal structures, individual choice and responsibility, performance, and the meaningfulness of work as discursive themes of well-being that require and justify the position of HR practitioners as ‘an army’ of management programmes, practices and resources.

5. Discussion and conclusions

This study shows how HR practitioners in Finnish municipalities have not only accepted well-being at work policies but have, in fact, embraced the discourse of well-being at work as a field to be co-ordinated and managed. In the results, I have identified how HR practitioners in municipal organizations legitimate their position as managers and co-ordinators of the formal structures related to well-being at work, providers of individual opportunities, upholders of the well-being at work agenda and, lastly, reminders of the meaningfulness of municipal work. In particular, the quest for formal structures, individual choice and responsibility, performance and meaningfulness of work are constructed as discursive themes that require and justify the position of HR practitioners in management programmes, practices and resources under the umbrella of well-being at work. Table 2 provides an overview of the results.