This distinctive volume contains original contributions from leading experts to provide a challenging analysis of recent thinking and developments in personnel management. It explores the "lean organization" and "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 in the UK. Overall, this book provides the fullest analysis to date of what is ...
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This distinctive volume contains original contributions from leading experts to provide a challenging analysis of recent thinking and developments in personnel management. It explores the "lean organization" and "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 in the UK. Overall, this book provides the fullest analysis to date of what is happening in personnel management. It gives 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 state of Economic and Monetary Union.
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