Personnel Review: Volume 14 Issue 4

Is “Rattening” a Feminist Issue? The Use of an Existing Training Exercise for a New Purpose

Anne Spencer, Mary Ball

Discrimination, in all its forms, has increasingly become an issue within the personnel profession. The various Acts of Parliament have essentially provided some guidelines for…

Organisation Planning and the Role of the Personnel Department

Alan Cowling, Alastair Evans

Whilst it is generally accepted that the way in which an organisation, particularly a large organisation, is designed can and does have a major influence on its operation and…

Computers and the Industrial Relations Manager: A Case Study of the Mining Industry

Edmund Heery

A persistent theme in writing on personnel management has been the relative marginality of the personnel function within the management team as a whole (see Legge pp. 50–7) and…

Some Factors Influencing Labour Turnover: Personnel Managers' Views in Iraq

Adel H. Salih, Roger Mansfield

Labour turnover has been recognised and studied as a management problem for several decades. Interest in the issue increased significantly at the beginning of the 20th century, at…

A Comparison of the OPQ and 16PF in Relation to their Occupational Application

Penny Swinburne

The OPQ (Occupational Personality Questionnaire) is a factor‐analytic‐based, self‐report questionnaire which has been developed in Britain as a wide‐band assessment device for use…