Personnel Review: Volume 1 Issue 3

TOWARDS A BEHAVIOURAL VIEW OF MANPOWER PLANNING

Stuart Timperley

Manpower planning is defined in terms of the elements of prediction and control, and certain key aspects of these dimensions are identified. It is suggested that there is scope…

Recent Developments in Manpower Research

Don Bryant

The objectives of this article are: 1 to give an overview of some basic ideas that were outlined in an earlier review paper by the author; 2 to bring it up to date by outlining…

Practical Obstacles to Effective Manpower Planning

Glenn Wellman

The personnel function has not, in general, been involved in the high‐level strategic decision‐taking activities of the firm. This lack of involvement seems largely to be caused…

JOB SATISFACTION: A METHOD OF ANALYSIS

Enid Mumford

Job satisfaction is a nebulous concept. Managers talk about it a great deal, but, if pressed to explain exactly what they mean are hard pushed to provide a precise definition…

Occupational Role Development Part 11

Dan Gowler, Karen Legge

In part 1 of this paper we used the concept of the occupational role to illustrate some of the contributions social scientists make to the better understanding of the problems…

Job and Pay Comparisons in Collective Bargaining: A Systematic Procedure

Tom Lupton

The credibility of the comparisons that are made between wage rates and earnings in supposedly similar jobs is frequently a major factor in collective bargaining in an industry or…

The Costing of Labour Turnover

M.E. Orton

Much has been written about the causes and measurement of labour turnover, but less has been written about the costs involved. It is generally assumed that high rates of labour…

Institute of Manpower Studies

The Institute of Manpower Studies (IMS) was established because of a widespread belief that there was a need for a national centre of practical knowledge and experience of the…