Personnel Review: Volume 8 Issue 2

Values and Rationales of Key Organisational Members for Participation

John W. Dickson

Clarification of the term participation is sought through asking key organisational members, (a) why participation is being introduced in their organisation; (b) what are the…

Organisation Structure and Worker Participation

Jean A. Millar

A number of interesting studies have emerged recently in the area of worker participation. Many of them discuss and analyse structures of representation and hypothesise on…

Organisational Development through OD‐WIT — Rewards — An Integrated Approach

Ezey M. Dar‐El, Gedaliahu H. Harel

This article describes a new approach to organisational development — one which integrates a management development programme with a worker development programme. The latter uses…

Working and Learning — Identifying Your Preferred Ways of Doing Things

Ralph Lewis, Charles Margerison

It was John Dewey who clearly argued that we should integrate learning with work and work with learning. His view was that experience could be a great teacher, providing we had…

Change within the Probation Service: Evaluation from an Action Research Perspective

Stephen Fineman, Colin Eden

The present account results from twelve months of the authors' involvement with a probation service undergoing change. The change was initiated by an external body to the service…

Policy, Accounting and the Problem of Order

Anthony J. Berry

Since the evolution of theories of organisation in relation to environment the issue of environmental turbulence has come to dominate the literature of management. The strategists…

Predicting Effectiveness from Individual or Organisational Climate Scores

John Hunt

Organisation theory has been caught on an individual‐collective dichotomy for years. Systems theorists have argued that the whole or, even, the role system of an organisation…