Personnel Management

An increasing awareness of the significance of the management of people to competitiveness, alongside new practices and new paradigms such as 'human resource management', demands a critical appraisal of both the theory and practice of personnel management. This new and thoroughly up-dated edition of the best-selling Personnel Management provides a challenging analysis of recent thinking and developments. Original contributions from leading experts offer a provocative, path breaking treatment of personnel management in the "lean organization" and the "extended organization" as well as the main issues in each of the key areas of planning and resourcing, performance management, training and development, involvement and participation and management-trade union "partnership" agreements. Overall, it offers the fullest analysis to date of what is happening in personnel management and the most comprehensive framework within which to understand both present and likely future trends, including the challenges of Europeanization following the UK's signature of the "social chapter" of the EU Maastricht Treaty and the launch of the critical stage of Economic and Monetary Union. This book's distinctive approach, in simultaneously bringing together and advancing knowledge and understanding of how people are managed in work organisations makes it a vital source for policy makers, teachers and researchers in the field, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate management students and practitioners taking IPD qualifications.

ISBN 0631212922   Pages 416 ISBN13 9780631212928 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 597 Imprint Blackwell Publishers   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780631188216 Publication date 09 Jan 2000   Height (mm) 244 Library of Congress HF5549.2.G   Width (mm) 172 DEWEY 658.3   Spine width (mm) 24 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate

		List of Contributors
		List of Figures
		List of Tables
		Preface
Pt. 1		Personnel Management in Context		1
1		Personnel Management in Perspective by Stephen Bach and Keith Sisson		3
2		Personnel Management in the Lean Organization by Karen Legge		43
3		Personnel Management in the Extended Organization by Trevor Colling		70
Pt. 2		Planning and Resourcing		91
4		Manpower or Human Resource Planning - What's in a Name? by Sonia Liff		93
5		Recruitment and Selection by Sue Newell and Viv Shackleton		111
6		Still Wasting Resources? Equality in Employment by Linda Dickens		137
Pt. 3		Employee Development		171
7		Towards the Learning Organization? by Ewart Keep and Helen Rainbird		173
8		Management Development by John Storey and William Tate		195
9		Managing Careers by Helen Newell		218
Pt. 4		Pay and Performance		239
10		From Performance Appraisal to Performance Management by Stephen Bach		241
11		Remuneration Systems by Ian Kessler		264
12		Managing Working Time by James Arrowsmith and Keith Sisson		287
Pt. 5		Work Relations		315
13		Discipline: Towards Trust and Self-discipline? by Paul K. Edwards		317
14		Direct Participation by Mick Marchington and Adrian Wilkinson		340
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"Whether you prefer to title the function 'human resource management', 'employment relations' or 'personnel', this re-written third edition of Personnel Management stands out as the most authoritative, research and theory based text for understanding the practice, and difficulties, or managing people at work." "John Purcell, School of Management, University of Bath."

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