Personnel Review: Volume 36 Issue 4

Understanding construction employment: the need for a fresh research agenda

Andrew Dainty, Irena Grugulis, David Langford

As a backdrop to the empirical contributions contained within this special section, this Guest Editorial aims to review the context of construction employment. It summarises the…

Skill shortages, recruitment and retention in the house building sector

Linda Clarke, Georg Herrmann

The purpose of this paper is to show how internal and external labour markets operate in the construction sector, associated with different strategies taken by firms in recruiting…

The “rain dance” of selection in construction: rationality as ritual and the logic of informality

Cliff Lockyer, Dora Scholarios

Recruitment and selection in the construction industry is ad hoc – the search for workers to match immediate employment needs is unsystematic, usually conducted in a short‐termist…

Getting the mix right? The use of labour contract alternatives in UK construction

Chris Forde, Robert MacKenzie

The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of contingent labour in the construction and civil engineering sector in the UK.

Productivity improvements: understand the workforce perceptions of productivity first

Paul W. Chan, Ammar Kaka

To establish the differences between the perceptions of white‐collar managers and blue‐collar workers with respect to the factors that affect construction labour productivity, and…

A competency‐based model for construction supervisors in developing countries

Alfredo Serpell, Ximena Ferrada

To analyze the role of construction site supervisors, including foremen and general foremen, as front‐line managers. The role is treated as a critical labor function and a source…

Les Compagnons du Devoir: a French Compagnonnage as a HRD system

Hedley Malloch, Birgit Kleymann, Jacques Angot, Tom Redman

To describe and analyse the Compagnons du Devoir (CdD), a French Compagnonnage; that is, a labour brotherhood and a community of practice; and to identify the reasons for its…

“Hey GRINGO!”: the HR challenge of graduates in non‐graduate occupations

John Blenkinsopp, Tracy Scurry

The purpose of this paper is to examine the phenomenon of growing numbers of graduates in non‐graduate occupations (GRINGOs), and to explore the HR issues and complexities that…

The theory of work commitment: a facet analysis

Abraham Carmeli, D. Elizur, Eyal Yaniv

This study attempts to analyze the structure of work commitment by delineating and classifying the content areas that constitute the conceptual space of the work commitment domain.

Extended book review

Robert Wapshott