ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1994.tb00363.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Paul Marginson, Paul Edwards, Peter Armstrong and John Purcell draw on the findings of IRRU's Company Level Industrial Relations Survey to investigate the business structure, budgetary control systems and strategic orientations of large companies in the UK. Companies’ internal structure, and their systems of budgetary control, are shown to be associated with the kind of diversification strategy they are pursuing. Both external change, such as acquisition, and organic change are widespread across all types of firm as is the consequent internal reorganisation. They discuss the implications of the different strategic orientations and structural arrangements, and the rapidity of organisational change, for human resource policy.Paul Marginson and Paul Edwards are respectively Senior Lecturer and Professor of Industrial Relations at the Warwick Business School and Associate Fellow and Deputy Director of its Industrial Relations Research Unit; Peter Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in the Management School at the University of Sheffield; and John Purcell is University Lecturer in Management Studies and Fellow of Templeton College, Oxfor

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1994.tb00364.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Christopher Mabey and Geoff Mallory, who are respectively Head of and Research Fellow at the Open University Business School's Centre for Human Resource and Change Management, focus on attempts to modify behaviour and cultivate new competencies through cultural and structural change. They explore these issues, first, theoretically, by reviewing the growing body of relevant literatures and, second, empirically, by analysing two case organisations – the General Motors‐Isuzi joint venture, IBC Vehicles Ltd, and Grampian Health Board – which adopted very different approaches. In both cases, they consider what assumptions underpinned the change processes, what human resource strategies policies were pursued, and what outcomes were app

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1994.tb00365.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Stephen Procter, John Hassard and Michael Rowlinson investigate the introduction of cellular manufacturing in two units of a large British engineering group. They explore the reasons for its introduction – in both cases it was the cumbersome, functionally‐based system of production that precluded quick and easy reaction to changes in conditions – and the effects such as the flattening of the organisational structure and the new role of the cell leader. A comparison of the two companies shows the difficulties involved in trying to enhance discretion by means of a process that was explicitly low‐trust in nature. In one case an open and participative style was used which appeared to meet with success. In the second case, management adopted a closed and uncommunicative style which induced indifference and, at worst, resistance.Stephen Procter and Michael Rowlinson are Lecturers in the School of Management and Finance at the University of Nottingham, and John Hassard is Professor in the Department of Management at the University o

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1994.tb00366.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Miguel Martinez Lucio and Mike Noon, who are Lecturers in Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour respectively at the Cardiff Business School, draw on a case study of Royal Mail to explore the reasons for decentralisation and the issues this poses for managers and employees. They argue that the restructuring of Royal Mail was the result of three different imperatives for change: market, technological and political – pressurising managers to decentralise the formal structures of management‐trade union relations. Decentralisation of these structures, however, has been far from a straightforward process: it has led to considerable tensions in the management of industrial relations, created scope for the development of new workplace industrial relations institutions and agendas, and given rise to a constant process of management ref

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1994.tb00367.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Linda Keen, who is Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the Canterbury Business School, uses a case study investigation of a local authority well advanced in its adoption of the ‘new’ devolved management systems, to identify the views of middle managers themselves about the extent to which devolved budgeting had brought about a real increase in their managerial autonomy, focusing on key elements of budgetary devolution identified in the literature, including the roles of devolved finance staff. She concludes that increases in these managers’ budgetary responsibilities were generally not accompanied by corresponding increases in their autonomy over budgetary management decisions, and identifies a number of human resource management issues, arising from this non‐alignment, in relation to management control systems, and training, motivation and reward management str

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1994.tb00368.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Stephen Bach, who is Lecturer in Industrial Relations at the Warwick Business School and an Associate Fellow of its Industrial Relations Research Unit, examines the impact of the internal market in the NHS on the role, organisation and influence of the personnel function. He argues that personnel specialists have not been able to fulfil expectations of them and occupy a peripheral role within NHS trusts. This has occurred because of their limited involvement in corporate decision making, the difficulties of decentralising personnel practice and the absence of a strategic direction for the management of human resources at national level. In this context, he argues that the prospects for the personnel function and the potential for an integrated, long‐term approach to the management of staff in the NHS remain at best uncertai

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1994.tb00369.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Books review in this article:The Control of Industrial Relations In Large Companies: an Initial Analysis of the Second Company Level Industrial Relations Survey(Warwick Papers In Industrial Relations No.45) Paul Marginson, Peter Armstrong, Paul Edwards and John Purcell with Nancy Hubbard

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1994.tb00370.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY