Personnel Review: Volume 7 Issue 2

Job Enrichment from Theoretical Poverty: The State of the Art and Directions for Further Work

A.J. McLean, D.B.P. Sims

This article considers various definitions of the concept of job enrichment, and considers the findings of job enrichment studies. Some shortcomings in the theory and its…

An Analytical Approach to Employee Involvement and Participation

N.R. Ponsford, P.J. Carpenter

This article describes an analytical approach which has been developed by two practising Personnel Managers in industry to achieve the following objectives: 1 To describe and…

Workers' Direct Participation in Decisions in Hungarian Factories

L. Héthy, Cs. Makó

For the past few years workers' participation in decisions associated with the running of factories has become a much discussed question in Hungarian industrial relations…

Participative Management Practice and Work Humanisation in Japan

Nobu Kuniya, Cary L. Cooper

The potential for improving the quality of working life through increased shopfloor involvement in decision‐making, work redesign experiments, etc., is greater in Japan than in…

Management By Appreciation

I.E. Gadalla

In the study of social systems, we are becoming used to asking questions about the nature of the ‘language’ that systems use to manage and communicate with themselves and their…

Developing the Quality of Judgement

P.J. Boxer

This paper considers how the gap between ‘academic’ knowledge and ‘practical’ experience can be bridged in the context of a manager's exercise of judgement. It examines the role…

The Development of Group Working in Biscuit Manufacture — A Case

D.W. Birchall, C.A. Carnall, R. Wild

Job design/work organisation change continues to be the subject of much debate amongst practitioners and academics. Whilst many case examples have been reported (see Birchall and…