LSM
Place des Doyens 1/L2.01.01
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
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LSM
Place des Doyens 1/L2.01.01
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Laurent Taskin, PhD in Management, is a professor of Human Resource and Organisation Studies at the Louvain School of Management, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) where He holds the labor-H Chair in Human management and new ways of working. Currently head of the department Strategy and Organization at the Louvain School of Management, director of the Master in HRM, He is or has been invited in several Universities abroad among which Cass Business School (City University London, UK), Warwick Business School (The University of Warwick, UK), PSL Paris Dauphine or UQAM (Montréal, CA).
His research focuses on new ways of working and managing, adopting a critical approach. Laurent has published 40+ articles in journals such as Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Human Resource Management, New Technology, Work and Employment, Management Learning, Economies & Sociétés, Revue Française de Gestion or @GRH. He has published 15+ books, including co-editing Critical Management Studies: Global voices, local accents (Routledge, 2016, with Chris Grey, Isabelle Huault and Véronique Perret), and Management Humain (De Boeck, 2020, 2nd edition, with Anne Dietrich). He had also act as Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Work Innovation (Inderscience), from 2012 till 2021.
Experience
year description
2007-... Associate Professor, Louvain School of Management, Université catholique de Louvain
2012-..., Titulaire chaire laboRH en Management Humain et Transformations du Travail (TRAV/ILSM)
2011-..., President, Institut des Sciences du Travail
2011-..., Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Work Innovation
2008-2011, deputy director, CRECIS
2012 Visiting Professor, IAE Lille1, FR
2006 Visiting Fellow, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK
Year | Label | Educational Organization |
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2001 | Licencié en sciences de gestion | Université catholique de Louvain |
2003 | Diplômé d'études approfondies en économie et gestion | Université catholique de Louvain |
2007 | Docteur en Sciences de Gestion | Université catholique de Louvain |
Main research interests:
Relying on the spread of information and communication technologies (ICT), new forms of work organization (NFWO) emerge and constitute nowadays a component of a flexible way to manage work that challenge traditional human resource management practices. We particularly focus on the re-regulation process it involves in the management of remote employees by especially considering two main fields of enquiry:
-A human resource dimension exploring the management of NFWO and remote employees, namely by focusing on control issues;
-A strategic dimension exploring how NFWO challenge knowledge transfer.
Main related publications :
- Taskin, L. & Devos, V. (2005) "Paradoxes from the individualization of human resource management: The case of telework", Journal of Business Ethics, 62 : 13-24.
- Taskin, L. & Edwards, P. (2007) "The possibilities and limits of telework in a bureaucratic environment: Lessons from the public sector", New Technology, Work and Employment , 22(3), 195-207.
- Taskin, L. (2007) Les enjeux de la déspatialisation pour le management humain: Vers de nouveaux modes de contrôle?, Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain, 489p.
- Taskin, L. & Bridoux, F. (à paraître, 2010) "Telework: Despatialisation as a challenge to knowledge creation and transfer", International Journal of Human Resource Management.
Adopting a critical and managerial perspective, we aim at re-considering the political dimension of individuals (i.e. power and control) within the mainstream approach of KBV (knowledge-based view) to advance knowledge about the sharing of knowledge within organizations. FSRIU Research project grant.
Critical Management Studies (CMS) comprise a range of alternatives to mainstream management theory, with a view to radically transforming management practice. At its core is a deep skepticism regarding the moral defensibility and the social and ecological sustainability of prevailing conceptions and forms of management and organization. In the context of a growing interest in CMS, we propose to question Human Resource Management mainstream and practices. This results, especially, in a critique of the limits of those ‘orthodox’ approaches and of taken-for-granted or unquestioned issues (such as for instance power and control) and in the development of alternative perspectives.
Main related publications:
- Taskin, L. & Willmott, H. (2008) “Introducing Critical Management Studies: Key dimensionsâ€, Gestion 2000, 25(6), 27-38.
- Taskin, L. & Tremblay, D.-G. (2008) “Une critique scientifique constructive pour comprendre de nouveaux enjeux organisationnels“, Gestion 2000, 25(6), 15-24.