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Gordon Causer, who is a Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Southampton, and Carol Jones, who is Senior Lecturer in Employee Relations in the Lancashire Business School, University of Central Lancashire, explore the responses of twenty electronics companies in central Southern England to problems of recruitment and retention of professional engineers employed in research, design and development functions. They argue that organisations might be expected to treat such staff as a long‐term resource, subject to processes of careful selection, extensive training and flexible utilisation. In practice these tendencies are modified to a greater or lesser degree by a variety of structural constraints, including the volatile nature of the electronics industry, the disciplinary heterogeneity of its labour force, the funding of research and development activities and the labour market conditions faced by organisation

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1993.tb00313.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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Tim Morris, Helen Lydka and Mark Fenton O'Creevy present data on a group of graduates during the first five years of employment. Dividing the sample into those who have remained with their original employer and those who have changed, they examine attitudinal commitment and tenure intentions against a set of human resource policies measured at three points in time. They find that those policies significantly associated with high commitment change over time; that attitudinal and behavioural commitment are conceptually distinct constructs; and that behavioural commitment is a less stable construct than attitudinal commitment. Generally, it appears that employee commitment is more provisional than is implied by much of the literature.Tim Morris is a Lecturer at the London Business School, Helen Lydka a researcher at the Henley Management College, and Mark Fenton O'Creevy a Research Fellow at the LBS Centre for Organisational Research.

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1993.tb00314.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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Ed Snape, Tom Redman and Adrian Wilkinson examine the implications of the changing competitive environment for the management of staff in building societies. In particular, they draw on the results of a detailed case study to discuss attempts to introduce policies and practices associated with ‘HRM’. the conclusion is that the competitive pressures which led to the demand for these policies and practices may also make their successful implementation especially dificult.Ed Snape is a Lecturer in the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Strathclyde, Tom Redman a Lecturer at Teesside Business School, and Adrian Wilkinson a Lecturer at the Manchester School of Management (UMI

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1993.tb00315.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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Keith Grint, who is a Fellow in Organizational Behaviour at Templeton College, Oxford, offers a critical evaluation of performance appraisal systems. He argues that the traditional criticism of appraisals – their subjectivity – leads to a fruitless search for ever more objective appraisal criteria that are illusory. the consequence need not be that appraisals should be abandoned but they should be treated much more sceptically and reflexively. In particular, he suggests, there are strong arguments for supplementing traditional downward appraisals of subordinates with upward appraisals of superordina

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1993.tb00316.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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In this research note Gedaliahu Harel, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the Israel Institute of Technology, and Yehuda Baruch, Visiting Fellow at the City University Business School, explore the effects of a special educational and training programme that affects the backgrounds of employees in technical jobs measured by variables such as level of performance, professionalism, and organisational commitment. the results are considered in terms of the particular population examined and the implications discussed for the use of special vocational education and training.

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1993.tb00317.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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Books review in this article:Developments In the Management of Human Resources: an Analytical ReviewJohn StoreyChange Management: A Guide to Effective ImplementationJames McCalman and Robert A. PatonA Structural Analysis of Small GroupsSusan LongCounselling the Poor PerformerHugh Fitzwilliams

ISSN:0954-5395    

DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1993.tb00318.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY