Personnel Review: Volume 4 Issue 4

Towards a Theory of Action

William Egan

We tend to think only in terms of man acting upon the inanimate world. If one is dealing with things or numbers then laws may be deduced, equations derived and, if the right…

Using Repertory Grid Technique to Evaluate Management Training

M. Smith, David Ashton

Many criticisms have been made about the ability of traditional evaluation measures to provide genuinely useful information. They rarely tell the trainer anything he does not…

Management Style and Fair Payment

Tom Husband

This article discusses the relationship between management style within a firm and the procedures used to determine internal wage and salary differentials. At a time when…

The Management of Stress

Cary L. Cooper, Judi Marshall

The topicality of ‘stress at work’ is largely due to a recognition of the harmful effects that the mental ill health of both management and workers can have on organizations…

A Practical Guide to Company Manpower Planning

Roger A. Sawtell, Philip Sweeting

As employment costs and, regrettably, Government interference increase, companies are beginning to recognize the need for a rational manpower policy or strategy to take account of…

The Creation of an Organization Development Function in a Group of Small and Medium‐sized Companies

Michael Wellin

This paper will present the results of a research project investigating the creation of an ‘Organization Development Function’ in a group of small and medium‐sized companies…

A Practical Approach to the Assimilation of Product Change on the Shop Floor

VA Seal

The following notes describe and discuss how an industrial engineering department, in the electronics industry, faced with the challenge of gaining operator acceptance of…

One More Time: Theories of Occupational Choice

Eileen Fairhurst

Occupational Choice Personnel Planning and Occupational Choice The way in which people get into, stay in or leave occupations interests us all. Not least because each and every…