Personnel Review: Volume 5 Issue 3

A Journal of People, Work, and Organisations

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Manpower Planning in the Face of Uncertainty

D.J. Bartholomew, R.F.A. Hopes, A.R. Smith

The role of uncertainty in manpower planning is discussed and illustrated by reference to manpower planning in the Civil Service. The nature of the planning process is described…

Long Term Manpower Forecasting in the Zambian Mining Industry

A.J. Blom, A.J. Knights

A simulation model is described which assists manpower planning management to evaluate the long term effects of recruitment/training policies in respect of future localisation of…

The Cusum Chart: A Supergraph for Personnel Managers

B.H. Mahon, D.G. Jones

The cusum (cumulative sum) chart is a type of graph which takes a little longer to draw than one of the traditional kind but which gives a lot more information. It is particularly…

Life Table Analysis and Manpower Statistics — A Note

Freda Conway

The idea of a life table was first suggested by John Graunt in his Observations on the Bills of Mortality for the City of London, which was published in 1662. A number of these…

Redundancy: A Psychological Problem?

Jean Hartley, Cary L. Cooper

The number of rendundancies is growing at a steadily increasing rate. Although a great deal has been written about it in the popular press, not enough systematic work has been…

The Personnel Manager and his Subordinates — What does he Want and What does he Get? A Research Note

C.K. Elliott, C.J. Margerison

During the last few years, most personnel departments have expanded rapidly. The importance of sound personnel policy and practice within a company in now increasingly recognized…

The Radicalisation of Industrial Relations Theory

Stephen Wood

It is now widely accepted, perhaps with some qualifications, that the dominant British school of industrial relations in recent years has been the liberal‐pluralist or…

Cover of Personnel Review

ISSN:

0048-3486

Online date, start – end:

1971

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Professor Eddy Ng
  • Professor Pauline Stanton