Personnel Review: Volume 3 Issue 4

Values, Contracts and Job Satisfaction

Dan Gowler

In 1970, a quite new approach was introduced to the debate about job satisfaction. Briefly, Enid Mumford, who had been conducting research in this field, suggested that,

Breakthrough in Participation: a case study of massive participation in a complex organization as a technique of planned change

W. Michael A. Brooker, David Allison

Complex organizations are undergoing stresses and strains which cause their members to resort to disruptive behaviour. Strikes, lockouts, difficulties between staff and students…

Manpower Planning: a case study in the Forestry Commission

P.L. Ashdown, S. Cruden, J.D. Sheldon, D.G. Boyd, B.G. Venner

Introduction This account of an operational manpower planning study is presented to show how the available ingredients were mixed to produce a very successful and useful end…

The Process of Organizational Entry

Stuart R. Timperley

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of recruitment and selection activities as key elements in organizational entry. In reality, though closely connected, they often…

A Further Comment on human resource accounting

James A Cannon

In a critical article in the last issue of Personnel Review the two major approaches to Human Resource Accounting (HRA) were examined and the salient criticisms arrayed. The…

Personnel and Training Procedures in a Service Industry: A pilot study of 88 hotels in the North East

Paul Johnson, John Corcoran

The Manpower Consultative Group for the Hotel and Catering Industry has for the last 18 months shown a serious concern for the critical manpower situation faced by that industry…

Behavioural Science and Systematic Management: Allies or Antagonists?

H.J. Misselhorn

There are two schools of management philosophy which, in the purist forms, appear to be diametrically opposed to one another. On the one hand, we hear the behavioural scientists…

Is Industrial Warfare Inevitable?

A. Priest

Generations of British managers have been indoctrinated with a system of beliefs that condition their attitudes to industrial conflict in such a manner as to make most difficult…

Research in the Department of Employment

The Department of Employment needs no introduction to readers of Personnel Review. But it may well not be the first organization to come into their minds when they think of…