Personnel Review: Volume 3 Issue 3

Assessment Centres—a review of research findings

Bernard Ungerson

Assessment Centres are becoming increasingly popular and are being ‘sold’ — both literally and metaphorically — by organizations and individuals on both sides of the Atlantic. It…

Human Resource Accounting—a critical comment

James A. Cannon

Since the time of Adam Smith, economists have grappled with the concept of human capital whilst more recently attempts have been made to assess the rate of return made on the…

The Attachment of White‐Collar Workers to Trade Unions

Peter Bowen, Valerie E. Elsy, Monica P. Shaw

The purpose of this paper is to consider how far different unions representing white‐collar workers fulfil the expectations of their memberships. In order to focus upon this…

Danish Experiments with New Forms of Cooperation on the Shopfloor

Flemming Agersnap, Finn Junge, Ann Westenholz, Palle Møldrup, Lisbeth Brinch

This is a preliminary report about experimentation with new forms of cooperation in seven firms within the Danish metal industry.

Managerial Evolution in Japan

Kenji Okuda

This paper is concerned with analysing through a historical review some of the salient features of the productivity increase movement in Japan. Toward this end, the author would…

Copenhagen School of Economics and Social Sciences — Institute of Organization and Industrial Sociology

The Institute dates back to 1952 when Torben Agersnap started at the Copenhagen School of Economics and Social Sciences. By 1969 it had a staff of three researchers, but in the…

Five Conditions for Successful OD

Robin Stuart‐Kotze

Experience with the process of organizational development in both the public and private sectors appears to indicate that there are certain minimum conditions which must be…