Personnel Review: Volume 5 Issue 2

‘Supportive Participation’: Formal Approaches to Worker—Staff Partnership

Ezey M. Dar‐El, Lawrence F. Young

‘Supportive Participation’ is a term used to describe a formal role for workers in all phases of the decision‐making process except the final ‘vote’, on activities that affect…

Participation and Perceptions of Control

Suzanne Richbell

Many managements have responded to the problem of decreasing control in the work situation by implementing participative schemes. Such schemes involve a change from the more…

The Conflict Resolution Process: The Two‐factor Theory and an Industrial Case

Lex Donaldson, Richard Lynn

This is a case study of an industrial relations situation which had been characterized by strife and where the conflict was substantially reduced through a process which was…

A Strategy for the Redesign of Work

Enid Mumford

The Summer 1972 issue of Personnel Review contained an article by Enid Mumford setting out a framework for analysing job satisfaction. This article presented a theoretical and…

Personnel Management within the Employees' Organization

Charles J. Margerison

It is now twenty years since Peter Drucker alleged that personnel management was bankrupt. In the interim, the role of personnel management has developed steadily. It is ironic…

Research at Ashridge

Bernard Barry

At an early stage in the development of Ashridge, it was appreciated that it was not sufficient for a major management development institution solely to pass on knowledge about…

Executive Unemployment and Personal Redundancy: June 1975

N. Page

This report deals with the experiences of a group of men and women who attended one of a series of seven courses at the University of Manchester in the period October 1972 to…