..., and consequent paper work of the internal market,find their working lives becoming increasingly frustrated. Critics of the new and increasingly formalized systems of evaluation and appraisals often point to the fact that the kinds of criteria and practices set up are already being operated, albeit in an informal...

...Annabelle Mark Explores the problems and opportunities for professions allied to medicine (PAMS) in the new NHS internal market. Uses a mechanism from IT, namely outsourcing, to provide a new organizational model for the effective delivery of care by this group of professionals who are marginalized...

...‐term investment as the labour market tightens and skilled staff become scarcer in the later 1990s. Alienation Ethics Human resource management Industrial relations Internal markets Management attitudes National Health Service Organizational change Performance appraisal Taylorism © MCB...