Personnel Review: Volume 4 Issue 3

The Behavioural Sciences: Their Potential and Limitations

Patrick Sills

There is widespread non‐understanding of the nature, possibilities and limitations of behavioural science among managements and trade unions. There is also considerable…

The Company's Role in Society — A Second Look at First Principles

Christopher F. Molander

‘The business of America’, said Calvin Coolidge in 1925, ‘is business’. Such a view, uncompromising and perhaps a trifle complacent, has been consistently reiterated in the West…

The Human Side of Work: The Socio‐Technical Approach to Work System Design

James C. Taylor

For me, the human side of work is the most important aspect in any consideration of jobs and organizations. Hospital organizations, for example, are made up of people, their jobs…

Manpower Planning Models in use in the Civil Service Department

A.F. Forbes, R.W. Morgan, J.A. Rowntree

This paper describes the mathematical models used by the Civil Service Department for manpower planning supply work, their inter‐relationship, and the problems to which they are…

Assessing the Validity of Selected Surrogate Measures of Human Resource Value — a field study

Eric Flamholtz

Although there has been a great deal of interest in the idea of accounting for human resources and considerable theoretical discussion of the problems of measuring human resource…

Executive Redundancy

N. Page

A new problem in the world of employment is that of executive redundancy. It was generally believed until a few years ago that once a person had joined the professional and…