Human Resource Management in the Pornography Industry: Business Practices in a Stigmatized Trade

Pornography is a stigmatized industry that faces operational considerations similar to traditional industries, such as increasing competition, new technology, and health and workplace safety issues. This book explores traditional human resource management processes and practices in the pornography industry, providing a value-neutral, analytical assessment of the HR practices in this unconventional and stigmatized trade.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 89 pages
Publication date: 13 June 2021
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

While pornography is often stigmatized as a "dirty work," it shares many of the same operational considerations as traditional industries. From increasing competition to the impact of new technology on services, to health and workplace safety issues, the pornography industry employs and applies HRM strategies that include recruiting, selecting, and retaining the best (sex) workers. As a follow-up to his previous book on the social history of training and development (2018), Kopp writes this final installment of a system contained within an unconventional setting, as he reflects and distills the facets of human resource management found in the pornography industry.

Specifically, this book explores traditional human resource management processes and practices and examines how common HRM systems are contextualized in an "organization-as-pariah" venue. Topics covered include recruiting, career development, performance management, and workforce diversity, offering readers a value-neutral, analytical assessment of the HR practices in the unconventional industry and stigmatized trade that is pornography.

Weight: 454g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030376611
Edition number: 1st ed. 2020