Employee Relations: Volume 25 Issue 3

Line management responsibility for HRM: what is happening in Europe?

Henrik Holt Larsen, Chris Brewster

The notion of line management accepting greater responsibility for human resource management (HRM) within employing organisations is now received wisdom. This paper presents data…

Devolving HR responsibility to the line: Threat, opportunity or partnership?

Susan Whittaker, Mick Marchington

Investigates the devolution of human resources (HR) responsibilities to the line within a large food manufacturing company. A total of 13 senior/board level line managers took…

Line manager involvement in HRM: an inside view

Douglas Renwick

Although line managers have always been involved in managing human resources (HR), it is within human resource management (HRM) that their involvement has been placed centre‐stage…

Line manager involvement in learning and development: Small beer or big deal?

Stephen Gibb

Increasing line manager involvement in learning and development (L&D) at work is one important part of the broader changing relations between line managers and human resource…

Line managers: facilitators of knowledge sharing in teams

Christina M. MacNeil

As human resource management (HRM) and knowledge management are still new areas of research, if we assume the co‐existence of strategic integration, and devolution of HRM…

Learning and Development: Processes, Practices and Perspectives at Work

Mary Hartog

Managing Knowledge Work

Cliff Lockyer