Personnel Review: Volume 28 Issue 1/2

Devolving human resource responsibilities to the line : Beginning of the end or a new beginning for personnel?

Ian Cunningham, Jeff Hyman

Alternative hypotheses for the personnel function are presented, based on findings from four case study organisations which have devolved personnel responsibilities from a…

Corporate performance and the influence of human capital characteristics on executive compensation in the UK

David Laing, Charlie Weir

The issue of executive pay has been the subject of intense debate in recent years. Discusses the factors determining executive pay using 1995 and 1996 data for a sample of 125 of…

The employment situation of young Chinese adults in the British labour market

Mary Pang

Chinese participation in the catering industry is conspicuous in Britain, but there also appears to be an emergence of young Chinese adults diversifying into other occupations and…

A comparison of a competitive and non‐competitive outdoor management development programme

Adrian Ibbetson, Sue Newell

This paper compares the immediate impact of an outdoor management development programme run in two different formats. The original OMD programme which was evaluated had a…

Re‐thinking training needs analysis: A proposed framework for literature review

Warren Chiu, David Thompson, Wai‐ming Mak, K.L. Lo

This paper reviews the literature on training needs analysis with the intention of organising conceptually the various approaches. It offers a way of going beyond simple…

Why the concept of human resource costing and accounting does not work: A lesson from seven Swedish cases

Ulf Johanson

Despite a promising outlook in the 1970s, it has been claimed that human resource costing and accounting have progressed at something less than snail’s pace over the past two…

Academics and their managers: a comparative study in job satisfaction

Titus Oshagbemi

A number of research findings have suggested that managers are, in general, more satisfied with their jobs than are workers. This study aims to investigate the job satisfaction of…

Self‐assessments in HRM: an example from an assessment centre

David Franks, Eamonn Ferguson, Stevan Rolls, Fenella Henderson

This study investigated the use of self‐assessments in predicting assessment centre outcome, looking at the difference between raw self‐assessments and self‐assessment accuracy…

Employee selection: a question of structure

Jean M. Barclay

The first part of a larger study into organisations’ use of structured interviewing techniques. Discusses reasons for continued popularity of interviewing in selection, despite…

The Gains of Listening: : Perspectives on Counselling at Work

Bob Gammie

Discrimination in the Workplace: : A Practical Guide

Gary Bastin

Ultimate Rewards: What Really Motivates People to Achieve

Paul McGrath

One Stop Payroll

Paul McGrath