Personnel Review: Volume 6 Issue 3

A Systems Approach to Organizational Change

Mats G. Lindquist

Organizational change is an activity that is only partially analysable within current systems theories since they are based on static models of systems. The change process…

A Job Satisfaction Study in HM Customs and Excise: A Participative Approach to Research Management and A Contingency Approach to Research Design

Margaret Exley

In recent years there has been a growing tendency for researchers and consultants in the field of job satisfaction to push for particular approaches to, and techniques for…

Experiments in Work System Design: Economic and Human Results Part I

James C. Taylor

This two part paper represents an attempt to enumerate and analyse recent instances of work system design experiments in terms of the outcome measures sought or reported in those…

Worker Participation and Plant‐wide Incentive Systems

M.P. Marchington

Worker participation in management remains a subject of much interest, particularly as legislation may well be expected in the near future. With most of the literature and the…

Teaching and Training Skills for Translating Learning Theory into Practice in Management Development Programmes

Roger Stuart, John Burgoyne

In this paper, we are concerned with the skills required to transform theories of learning into practice. Research data will be described which identify a range of teaching skills…

The Management of Stress in Organizations and the Personnel Initiative

Derek P. Torrington, Cary L. Cooper

The extent to which stress at work produces a degree of psychological impairment has become a central issue in the current debate on the quality of working life. Various analyses…

Is Redundancy a Social Problem? A Comment

S. Wood

Many academics in the area of personnel management and industrial relations tend to take the problems that they are dealing with as given. This may not be too much of a problem…