Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/93043
Year of Publication: 
2012
Citation: 
[Journal:] Management Revue [ISSN:] 1861-9916 [Volume:] 23 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Rainer Hampp Verlag [Place:] Mering [Year:] 2012 [Pages:] 173-190
Publisher: 
Rainer Hampp Verlag, Mering
Abstract: 
This paper offers Amartya Sen's capability approach as a framework for understanding and evaluating Human Resource Development activities in larger organizations, specifically transnational corporations (TNCs). There is a growing literature on international human resource management targeted at people studying management in large organizations which has encouraged an element of cultural sensitivity in HR practices. This paper is concerned with demonstrating how the capability approach can help link the world of work to wider socio-economic and citizenship development. Human exploitation (more negative) and raising returns to human capital (more positive) are compared to the capability approach as models for understanding the impact of human resource management activities. For the Capability Approach, it is important to take into account the potential impact of HRD on people working for a TNC and on their wider well-being outside the TNC. A case study of TNCs in Ghana is used to explore how the capability approach can be applied in practice. The paper concludes with some reflections on how the approach may help provide a conceptual framework for the global discourse on TNCs as potential developmental agents.
Subjects: 
human resource management
capability approach
decent work
corporate social responsibility
human capital
human exploitation
JEL: 
J24
J83
O15
Z10
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Document Type: 
Article

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