Personnel Review: Volume 8 Issue 3

Organisation Design,Technology and the Influence of Operations Management

Ray Wild

Operations managers are responsible for the design and operation of systems for manufacture, supply, transport and service. They are concerned primarily with physical resources…

Designing ‘Reality’ into Management Learning Events I: Towards Some Working Models

Don Binstead, Roger Stuart

The need for management training, development and educational activities to be grounded in practical experience and real life situations has become a loud and frequently heard cry…

Industrial Relations Climate: A Case Study Approach

Nigel Nicholson

The industrial relations climate of a steelworks was investigated through a programme of structured interviews with shop stewards and managers at all levels. Interviewees were…

The Social and Psychological Aspects of Redundancy: To What Extent a Problem?

Tanya Arroba

In a recent paper, Hartley and Cooper reviewed the available studies of redundancy using a psychological framework and came to the conclusion that insufficient systematic work had…

Industrial Relations and Safety Representation

D. Abell

The ‘Health and Safety at Work Act (1974)’ has always seemed to have important industrial relations implications. The Act was greatly influenced by the Robins Report which had…

The Study of Personnel Management as an Occupation, Using Repertory Grid

Shaun Tyson

This paper describes part of a research project into personnel management as an occupation, and argues for the study of personnel managers in the context of the organisations in…

The ‘Hayes’ Report—What Impact Has It Had?

M. O'Kelly, P.B. Dottridge

In the summer of 1977 a project was carried out by the Directorate of Training into the uses made of the Report Training for the Management of Human Resources. This is generally…