Personnel Review: Volume 8 Issue 4

Designing ‘Reality’ into Management Learning Events, II: High Reality Strategies

Roger Stuart, Don Binsted

In our last paper we gave consideration to some concepts of reality within the context of management learning events. Drawing upon the extant body of theory and our own…

Notes on Some Typologies of Managerial Development and the Role of Mentor in the Process of Adaptation of the Individual to the Organisation

Audrey Collin

This paper outlines some typologies of managerial and professional development. It then examines some aspects of the informal structure of an organisation and the significance of…

Career Development and Employee Participation: Current Trends and Their Implications

Allan P.O. Williams

Employee participation or industrial democracy represents an area of knowledge and practice which has resulted from the attempts of behavioural scientists, employers, unions and…

Bureaucratic Politics: Decision‐Making in Organisations

D.E. Allen

Some people argue that management, including personnel management, is decision‐making. This perspective ignores the many other functions of a manager — providing and processing…

The Social Context of Work Organisation Change

C.A. Carnall

Job design and work organisation are important current problems of industrial societies. It is argued that many jobs make low demands on the skills and abilities of employees, are…

Contingency Theory in Practice, I

C. Hendry

The need to develop the social sciences to make a practical contribution to organisational problems is a theme we hear much about. This article, which is in two parts, starts by…

Application of Delphi Techniques to Predicting Employee Relations Futures

G.S.S. Wigginton

This article describes an industrial relations research project which I recently undertook as part of a wider secondment experience aimed at extending my own knowledge of…