Personnel Review: Volume 14 Issue 1

A Journal of People, Work, and Organisations

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Organisational Induction: The Re‐creation of Order and the Re‐reading of Discourse

Steve Linstead

In this article I attempt a re‐conceptualisation of the process of organisational induction, borrowing concepts from discourse analysis, and Lévi‐Strauss's structuralism in…

Graduate Recruitment: How Graduates “Select” Companies — A Note

A. Keenan, R.S. Scott

Although graduate recruitment is an area of activity which is beset with difficulties for both employers and careers advisors, it is probably the graduates themselves who are…

New Plant Working Practices

P.B. Beaumont

In a series of recent articles, Lawler has argued that new established plants are especially likely to embody high (employee) involvement work systems. These work systems contain…

The Responsiveness of an Incentive Payment Scheme

M. White, A. Ghobadian

The design and administration of payment schemes present difficult problems for many large manufacturing organisations. These problems have been compounded in recent years by…

Quality Circles — Can We Evaluate Them?

K.F. Sherwood, Y. Guerrier, B.G. Dale

This article presents an outline of the current views on Quality Circle evaluation in which the methods, administration and problems are discussed. It has been concluded that…

Alcohol Problems at Work — Some Medical and Legal Considerations

Jean Knox, Anthony Fenley

Alcohol abuse can be detected at an early stage in the work setting. Absence of appropriate training and of an alcohol policy often results in negative and collusionist attitudes…

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ISSN:

0048-3486

Online date, start – end:

1971

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Professor Eddy Ng
  • Professor Pauline Stanton