... Psychology Personnel Human resource development This book contains ten chapters covering various topics relating to the development of people at work. As the back cover indicates, this is done at three levels: individuals in organizations (chapters 1 through 4); groups and teams (chapters 5 and 6...

...Kevin Morrell Both these books contain ten chapters covering a range of topics relating to managing people at work. Each will be of interest to practitioners, students and researchers. Personnel Psychology and HRM is strongly focused on the processes relating to recruitment...

.... Most commentators agree that over the past few years, many traditional personnel practices have been devolved to line managers (Hutchinson and Wood, 1995). The emergence of performance‐related human resource management (HRM) practices (Guest, 1991; Storey, 1992) and the general trend towards...

...Filip Lievens; Karen van Dam; Neil Anderson The aim of this article is to identify recent developments in personnel selection and to review existing research with regard to these recent developments. To this end, 26 human resource representatives were asked to list current or future trends...

...Kevin Morrell G.   Dessler . Human Resource Management, 8th edition . Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice‐Hall   2000 . 699 pp. (hbk) , ISBN: 0‐13‐0141240   £31.99 © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Human resource management Personnel Performance Strategy...

...Ian Cunningham; Jeff Hyman Alternative hypotheses for the personnel function are presented, based on findings from four case study organisations which have devolved personnel responsibilities from a designated personnel department to line managers. The views of line managers and employees...

... different from personnel management or just a change of a name? There is an argument in the literature about the differences between personnel management and HRM (cf. Guest, 1989). It is not the purpose of this paper to get into this debate, and the following definition will be used for our purposes...

...Nicholas J. Kinnie; Alan J. Arthurs A national survey shows that personnel specialists are still failing to exploit fully the benefits of information technology (IT) in their own work. In seeking to explain this, looks at the IT skills and knowledge of personnel specialists and their attitudes...

...Patrick Gunnigle; Sarah Moore Considers the idea of linking decisions on business strategy,product market characteristics and personnel/human resource management policies. Initially explores some theoretical aspects of business strategy‐personnel policy linkages and then considers some empirical...

... together person,context and selection. Presents an outline of an expert system which assists the specification process. Personnel Review 22,7 54 The Person Specification A Problem Masquerading as a Solution? Nigel van Zwanenberg and Larry J. Wilkinson University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK Introduction...

... strategy Outplacement Personnel Redundancy Surveys A Positive Policy? Corporate Perspectives on Redundancy and Outplacement Noeleen Doherty, Shaun Tyson and Claire Viney Cranfield School of Management, UK A Positive Policy? 45 Downsizing, Rightsizing, Redundancy and Lay-offs The UK is in the most...

... a macro and a micro level in organizations. With reference to three case studies, considers the implications of configurations to the debate over the differences between human resource management and traditional personnel management. Human resource management Integration Organizations Personnel...

...? How is the HRM consultant sourced, selected, managed and evaluated? What is their relationship with in‐house personnel departments? Concludes by considering the implications of the findings for the future role and status of the personnel function and identifies an agenda for further research. Suggests...

...Sue Wheeler; Dawn Lyon Reports on the findings of a research study into organizational responses to employee stress, funded by the Universities Funding Council: 30 interviews, including three pilot interviews, were conducted with personnel representatives of companies in the West Midlands region...

.... Concludes that whilst there is no definite answer to the question of whether there is a Latin model there is evidence for the existence of such a model and its features are outlined. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Human resource management Personnel Models Europe 14 PERSONNEL REVIEW 20,6 D iscusses...

... in the work situation. Examples of simulations include group, in-basket and fact finding exercises.) 34 PERSONNEL REVIEW 1 9 , 6 (2) Multiple assessors must be used. These assessors must receive training prior to participating in a centre. (3) Judgements resulting in an outcome (i.e. recommendation...

... organisation[4]. This means that we are concerned not just with peoples' behaviour, but the meanings, values and assumptions which underlie that behaviour[5]. According 10 PERSONNEL REVIEW 19,4 to Robbins[6] a strong culture is one in which there is a set of guiding values which are widely shared, clearly...

... and prescriptions within the wider context of organisational characteristics. Management development Personnel © MCB UP Limited 1990 MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT: A LITERATURE REVIEW 3 A n overall assessment of the management literature. What are the implications for the conduct of future research...

...David Knights; Carlo Raffo A “critical case” approach is used to examine whether the recruitment practices and procedures advocated by social scientists within the personnel field are realised in practice. The “critical case”selected is the graduate recruitment known as the“milkround”, where...

... of these stages involves a series of interesting tasks, that can be either facilitated or hindered by a range of organisational supports or constraints. The management of stress is of major importance to all management functions – not only personnel – in the light of its heavy potential costs. REDUCING THE COST...