The Strategic Management of Human Resources: Some Recent Advances Drawn from Experience in France Available to Purchase

The corporation has gradually come to occupy large areas of the social ground from which it sprang. A steady process of interpenetration between society and corporation has led to assimilation by the latter of increasing doses of a philosophy removed from the strictly rationalistic business ethic. This has largely been brought into the corporation by staff and workers. Management executives have grown in numbers since the last war. Their characteristics are conducive to a high degree of mobility. Due to their academic qualifications, higher salary scales and greater awareness of their particular job market conditions they are more able than lower‐grade workers to be selective when assessing employment opportunities. The corporation must attempt to attract the most promising elements available on this market and then secure their loyalty. In the matter of managing executive careers France possesses a definite degree of know‐how and even some degree of technological advancement. Recent developments in the career management field as observed among large companies in France are described.