INSTITUTE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE — 21–23 OCTOBER 1987 Available to Purchase

The Institute of Personnel Management's annual conference at Harrogate each October is attended by about 2,000 personnel practitioners. Although a wide variety of issues are debated over the course of the three‐day conference, one underlying theme throughout many of the sessions was the shift from “industrial relations” to “human resource management.” This has implications not only for the personnel function, and its professional members, but also for trade unions, who are increasingly being pushed from the centre stage of employee relations.