Personnel Review: Volume 7 Issue 1

A Journal of People, Work, and Organisations

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Table of contents

Some Comments on Current Labour Law

Terry Sullivan

Since 1970 the British industrial relations system has been injected with an unprecedented volume of law relating to employment. We have had the Equal Pay Act, 1970 and Sex…

The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 — File and Forget?

Janet S. Goodman, Virginia Novarra

This article seeks to assess the likely impact on British managers of the 1975 UK legislation prohibiting sex discrimination, drawing on experience from the United States. It will…

Stabilising Industrial Relations in a Multi‐Plant Footwear Company

E.G.A. Armstrong, J.F.B. Goodman, J.E. Davis, A. Wagner

This article derives from a research project supported by the Social Science Research Council, the results of which appear in a book, Rule Making and Industrial Peace. The article…

Power from Technology: Computer Staff and Industrial Relations

John Purcell, Lee Dalgleish, Juliet Harrison, Ian Lonsdale, Ian McConaghy, Alan Robertson

The significance of computer technology in terms of industrial relations is an area which has been neglected in the proliferation of literature accompanying the computer boom…

The Economics of Modes of Employment

Edwin Whiting

It is generally recognised that the cost to a company or other organisation of employing people to work for them is considerably more than the actual wages or salaries paid. The…

Teaching and Learning Methods in Management Development

John Burgoyne, Roger Stuart

The ‘design’ of management development programmes is usually seen by practitioners in the field as a matter of choosing the methods appropriate to the ‘content’ of what they want…

Manager/Subordinate Communication and Leadership Style: A Field Study of Their Relationship to Perceived Outcomes of Appraisal Interviews

Clive Fletcher

Most research on appraisal interviews has dealt with aspects of the interview itself. The study described here investigated the background to the interview — the day‐to‐day…

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ISSN:

0048-3486

Online date, start – end:

1971

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Professor Eddy Ng
  • Professor Pauline Stanton