...Lynette Harris As home‐based teleworking grows in the UK, more evidence is needed of how working from home shapes the employment relationship and the implications this may have for those line managers responsible for a home‐based workforce. The reported experiences of a sales team and their line...

...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...

.... Consequently, if the predominant management style within the organisation is more autocratic, encouraging self‐responsibility for development among staff is likely to run counter to this (Holbeche, 1995) and will be very difficult to achieve. To encourage managers to change to incorporate a developmental...

...Michael Poole; Glenville Jenkins Proposes to assess the extent to which line management has responsibility for human resource management (HRM) practices in the enterprise. First, addresses a number of theoretical positions that include “traditional”, “cyclical” and “secular” approaches...