Personnel Review: Volume 15 Issue 4

Are the Rewards Worth the Effort? Changing Managerial Values in the 1980s

Robert Goffee, Richard Scase

The manager was once depicted as the “organisation man”. Managers, it was claimed, regarded their work and careers as central life interests around which other activities and…

The Dynamics of Job Satisfaction — A Longitudinal Study

Julia Kiely

Personnel managers are concerned with making effective use of people. Job satisfaction is thus an issue of fundamental importance in personnel management. Interest in job…

Changing Patterns of Labour Recruitment

J.R. Ford, A. Bryman, A.D. Beardsworth, M. Bresnen, E.T. Keil, R. Jenkins

A series of studies over the last decade have indicated that considerable change has been taking place in the way in which organisations recruit their workers. In particular…

Recruitment and Selection: A Review of Developments in the 1980s

Neil Anderson, Viv Shackleton

Developments in personnel recruitment and selection “technology” have been both varied and extensive in the 1980s, and a number of overlapping and simultaneous developments are…

Interorganisation: Some Problems of Multi‐organisational Teams

David Sims

Cooperation between organisations, particularly in the public sector, is often attempted through setting up small joint committees, teams or planning groups, with members drawn…