Personnel Review: Volume 16 Issue 3

Personnel Management in the Netherlands: Recent Developments and Trends

R.J. Tissen, J.F. Bolweg

As a result of an almost inextricable combination of socio‐economic, technological and cultural developments, a number of trends have become discernible in recent years in the…

Predicting Differences in Employee Relations Practice from Values and Beliefs of Managers

John W. Hunt

There is a vast literature on managers' values and beliefs. However, there have been very few attemps to identify British managers' values or beliefs and relate them to employee…

Cognitive Performance Appraisal — Mapping Managers' Category Structures Using the Grid Technique

William N. Dunn, Thomas J. Pavlak, Gary E. Roberts

A very promising development in research on performance appraisal has been the increased emphasis on the cognitive processes that underlie raters' performance judgements. This…

Learning Styles and Learning

Alan Mumford

Some attention is at last being paid to the subject of how to help people, especially in my case managers, to learn how to learn effectively. It is not part of my purpose to argue…

In‐tray Exercises and Assessment Centres: The Issue of Reliability

David Smith, Tony Tarpey

An assessment centre typically involves several trained assessors evaluating the performance of individuals working in a small group. This evaluation is based on a number of…

Identifying Rewards for Strategic Thinking — A Survey of CEOs and Middle Managers

Manab Thakur, Wilma Hoffman

Recently, the senior author of this study conducted a series of seminars for top executives on “Strategic Management: A Problem of Implementation”. The series followed the…

A Long‐term Profit‐sharing Plan to Stimulate Motivation and Innovation among R&D Personnel

Edward A. Schroeder, J. Daniel Sherman, Robert C. Elmore

Technological innovation has been a highly significant engine of economic growth, and will continue to be a critical factor in the future. It plays a crucial role in maintaining…