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Ian Kessler and John Purcell, Fellows of Templeton College, Oxford, use data from a postal survey and case studies of organisations seeking in‐depth advisory assistance from ACAS to evaluate the effectiveness of joint problem solving techniques. They find strong support from both managers and employee representatives for the use of joint working parties in the management of change in employment relations. ACAS's unique role as an independent and impartial third party is seen as critical in helping the parties develop jointness as a means of handling problems. the problem, they suggest, is to find ways of developing employee representative systems in non‐union firms in order to utilise joint problem solving meth

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1993.tb00336.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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Peter Warr, Director of the MRC/ESRC Social and Applied Psychology Unit and a member of the ESRC Centre for Economic Performance, draws upon the Labour Force Survey and a study of members of the Institute of Management to provide detailed information about the incidence and duration of training undertaken by managers at different ages. In the context of projected ageing of the working population, he makes recommendations at three levels: encouraging adaptability through organisational norms, developing and applying training procedures which are effective for older learners, and the creation of national training targets for managers.

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1993.tb00337.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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Peter Herriot, Carole Pemberton and Robert Pinder report on and consider the policy implications of a study of the career attitudes of managers. Managers and their bosses believed that their attitudes about the managers’ careers were similar. In fact, there was little relationship between them, and furthermore, their perceptions of each other's preferences were largely unrelated to the preferences themselves. Three factors, ‘reputation’, ‘promotion’ and ‘competences’, explained approximately half the variance. Length of service with the organisation was the main predictor of the managers’ career attitudes. Managers believed themselves to be more likely to be promoted than did their bosses, and considered promotion more probable the more frequently they had moved jobs.Peter Herriot is Director of Research and Carole Pemberton is Research Consultant at Sundridge Park Management Centre. Robert Pinder is Director of Int

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1993.tb00338.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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Susan Corby, who is Senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations at the Manchester Metropolitan University, looks at industrial relations developments in the new ‘Next Steps’ Civil Service agencies which carry out the executive functions of government. She argues that the initiative is turning out to be a very large ‘step’ indeed. There is a trend towards agency autonomy on terms and conditions and away from Service‐wide prescription. Against this, however, are countervailing pressures. Thus Treasury control for macro‐economic reasons sits uneasily with agency autonomy. Collectivist traditions operate against the new individualism and the public services ethos operates against entrepreneurial

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1993.tb00339.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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Brian Abbott, who is a Research Assistant in the Small Business Research Centre at Kingston University, examines both employer and employee views towards the level and character of training provision in small service sector firms. He challenges the widely held belief that small firms universally offer inferior levels of training and demonstrates that the level and character of training are largely dependent on the industrial sector in which the firm is located. He goes on to examine the implications of employers’ views on the newly established Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1993.tb00340.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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Books review in this article:Managing Performance Appraisal SystemsGordon C. AndersonThe Handbook of Human Resource ManagementBrian Towers (Editor)Principles of Human Resource ManagementDavid GossHuman Resource Management: Key Concepts and SkillsP.B. BeaumontDesigning Organizations: A Decision PerspectiveRichard ButlerEmployment Relations: Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management In AustraliaMargaret Gardner and Gill PalmerHuman Resource Management In EuropeShaun Tyson, Peter Lawrence, Phillipe Poirson, Luigi Manzolini and Ceferi Soler Vicente (Editors)Managing Learning In OrganizationsD. Casey

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1993.tb00341.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY