Personnel Review: Volume 25 Issue 5

Contested terrain: The incomplete closure of managerialism in the health service

Graeme Currie

Focuses on feelings about culture and change in the health service and the impact of management development programmes on the change process. The issues raised in a series of…

Communication ‐ is it really that simple?: An analysis of a communication exercise in a case study situation

Judith Gill

Analyses a communication exercise within a case study company. The exercise is in preparation for the implementation of a new element of the company remuneration package which was…

Individualizing employee relations: The myth of the personal contract

Roger Welch, Patricia Leighton

Focuses on the introduction of personal contracts to replace terms and conditions of employment derived from collective agreements in light of the findings from three surveys of…

A fatal attraction?: Strategic HRM and the business case for women’s progression at work

Catherine Cassell

Critically assesses the underpinnings and implications of the business case for the progression of women at work. Fundamentally linked to the principles of strategic HRM, the…