Personnel Management : A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice

by Bach, Stephen; Sisson, Keith

• ISBN13: 9780631212911
• ISBN10: 0631212914
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	xi
Preface	xiii
Part 1 Personnel Management in Context	1	(90)
Personnel Management in Perspective	1	(42)
Stephen Bach
Keith Sisson
Personnel Management in the Lean Organization	43	(27)
Karen Legge
Personnel Management in the Extended Organization	70	(21)
Trevor Colling
Part 2 Planning and Resourcing	91	(80)
Manpower of Human Resource Planning -- What's in a Name?	93	(18)
Sonia Liff
Recruitment and Selection	111	(26)
Sue Newell
Viv Shackleton
Still Wasting Resources? Equality in Employment	137	(34)
Linda Dickens
Part 3 Employee Development	171	(68)
Towards the Learning Organization?	173	(22)
Ewart Keep
Helen Rainbird
Management Development	195	(23)
John Storey
William Tate
Managing Careers	218	(21)
Helen Newell
Part 4 Pay and Performance	239	(76)
From Performance Appraisal to Performance Management	241	(23)
Stephen Bach
Remuneration Systems	264	(23)
Ian Kessler
Managing Working Time	287	(28)
James Arrowsmith
Keith Sisson
Part 5 Work Relations	315	(2)
Discipline: Towards Trust and Self-discipline?	317	(23)
Paul K. Edwards
Direct Participation	340	(25)
Mick Marchington
Adrian Wilkinson
Management and Trade Unions: Towards Social Partnership?	365
Stephanie Tailby
David Winchester