The Personnel Manager and his Subordinates — What does he Want and What does he Get? A Research Note

During the last few years, most personnel departments have expanded rapidly. The importance of sound personnel policy and practice within a company in now increasingly recognized, due largely to the substantial rise in industrial disputes and to the increasing amount of legislation dealing with employee relations. For example, during the last ten years the number of working days lost through industrial disputes increased approximately tenfold. Alongside this there has been an increasing move to codify and provide a statutory basis for people at work, covering things such as health and safety, equal pay, redundancy provisions, training, employee protection and other similar legislation.