The labour process of the HR managers of the Internet industry in China

• Main Authors: Tan, Zhuo-Rui, 譚卓睿
• Other Authors: Liu, Mei-Jun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bqgr4m

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 勞工研究所 === 107 === In recent years, with the development of globalization, both white-collar workers and blue-collar workers are facing the deterioration of working conditions, which has caused a series of labour disputes. This phenomenon is particularly noticeable in the Internet industry. In almost every labor disputes, HR managers were always pushed to the center of the labour conflict, being accused of their personal qualities or professionalism. However, HR managers are not the darling of capitalists who can escape from the exploitation. Like other workers, they are also members of the "the making-out game". So, what exactly make the HR manager being pushed to the forefront of labor conflicts? Traditional management research insists on the de-political feature of human resource management. Therefore, they analyze the competency an the role of HR managers during the labor conflicts, attributing class contradiction as a management issue. However, they neglect the class relations in labor conflicts. Thus, the labor process theory provides a good perspective to re-examine the social relations of hr managers in the labor process. According to Marx, this thesis argues that the essence of human resources management is a kind of exploitative labor, which aims to assist capitalists to deprive of surplus value of the workers without compensation. Meanwhile, HR managers have become wage earners with the transformation of society. Capitalists purchase the labour force of HR managers for a certain period of time, but for a certain amount of labour. So, they deprive the labour of HR managers in the same methods for the exploitation productive workers. That is to say, HR managers are simultaneously in a dual relationship in exploiting and being exploited. Therefore, by focusing on the Internet industry, the thesis attempts to use the theory of labor process to discuss the management control and resistance of HR managers during the social relations, as well as re-exam the subjective of them presenting in this process. Further more, I try to answer the questions why human resource managers are addicted to the making-out game and silently performing exploitation work for the capitalists.