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PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Albert ChernsThe topic of this article is the contribution of the behavioural sciences to personnel management. I must confess, however, to a distaste for the term ‘behavioural science’ for…
Occupational Role Development Part 1
Dan GowlerSocial scientists are able to make, and indeed have made, contributions to the ideas and techniques available to the practising manager. These contributions vary from social…
Cybernetics— A Systems Approach to Management
Stafford BeerSociologists are usually seen as the principal developers of organisational theory and it is not always realised that some very convincing explanations of how organisations work…
The relationship between accounting and personnel management — past conflicts and future potential
Anthony G HopwoodThere is no doubt that personnel management and accounting have traditionally been viewed as separate functional areas of management with only slender and rather tenuous…
COMPUTERS IN PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
David WishartThe reliability of any personnel management information system depends, first, on the method of data collection and organisation, and secondly on the accuracy of summary…
The Hunt for Homo Obstreperans
Anthony EcclesThe hunt for Homo Obstreperans — or bloody‐minded man — is one of the great sports of British industry. Ranking as a pastime with promotion politicking, character assassination…
Loughborough University of Technology—Centre for Utilisation of Social Science Research
The Centre for Utilisation of Social Science Research was set up at Loughborough University in 1967, under the directorship of Professor AB Cherns, with the aid of a grant from…
‘Test‐bed’ for Lupton‐Gowler Pay Selection Procedure
It is now over two years since the Engineering Employers' Federation published a research paper by Tom Lupton and Dan Gowler entitled Selecting a Wage Payment System. When first…
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- Professor Eddy Ng
- Professor Pauline Stanton