ABSTRACT

This paper explores the issue of how children come to be treated as workers in schools that are run as though they were businesses. It describes how the ‘soft’ form of human resource management provides a useful model for school reform, since it seeks to increase the productivity of the worker through ‘humanistic’ means, treating the worker as a full person rather than merely a cog-in-the-machine. As an example of how soft HRM can be directed towards pupils in schools, the paper shows that the politically persuasive arguments for pupil voice were based on the practice of employee voice, a soft HRM practice designed to improve the commitment and efficiency of workers. In the discussion, I look at how pupil voice serves as a demonstration of how soft HRM could combine a broad curriculum with managerialist logics to form a seductive, ‘balanced’ approach to school reform.

摘要

本文探讨了如何将孩子当作在企业中经营的学校中的工人来对待的问题。它描述了“软”人力资源管理形式如何为学校改革提供有用的模型，因为它试图通过“人本”手段提高工人的生产率，将工人视为一个完整的人，而不只是一个硬汉。 -机器。作为如何向学校中的学生定向软人力资源管理的一个例子，该论文表明，在政治上具有说服力的关于学生语音的论点是基于员工语音的实践，这是一种软人力资源管理实践，旨在提高工人的投入和效率。在讨论中，我将探讨学生的声音是如何展示软人力资源管理如何将广泛的课程与管理主义逻辑相结合以形成诱人的，