Trust and Transition Managing Today's Employment Relationship

by Herriot, Peter; Hirsh, Wendy; Reilly, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780471979296
• ISBN10: 0471979295
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-10
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Constant organizational change has led to new challenges for the HR department. In some instances it has created problems. This book identifies the two key problems facing senior managers and HR directors today: * employees feelings of mistrust and insecurity, and their effects on the employment relationship * the speed of organizational change which requires employees to make continuous transitions. This book shows that the management of careers in organizations is still possible if career transitions: * are negotiated with employees * are supported by management * and, hence, recreate trust The authors outline the analytical, managerial and leadership tasks facing those seeking to manage careers in a climate of constant change. Fully illustrated with case studies this book will be of enormous use to any director concerned with the future success of the organization. "A thoughtful, very readable and well-documented overview of employment in the context of the huge changes in the world of work that have been going on through the nineties. From the point of view of employers, the book is of particular value in drawing attention to the importance of trust as the basis of the social capital element in the intellectual property of organizations." Godfrey Golzen, Editor, Human Resources "Trust and Transition is an important book on an important topic. If organizations are to manage change effectively, they need to help their employees to do so too. This deeply ethical as well as practical book indicates why this matters, and how career contracting can make it happen." A.G. Watts, National Institute for Careers Education and Counselling

Author Biography

Peter Herriot is a consultant and researcher on organisations and employment. He has had a career as an organisational psychologist and has served as Editor of The European Journal of Work and Organisaitonal Psychology. His previous publications include New Deals and Trust and Transition.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	viii	(1)
Series Editor's preface	ix
Part I Uncharted seas	1	(86)
Introduction	3	(8)
1 Continuity or cataclysm?	11	(16)
2 Human resource rhetoric: cost cutting reality	27	(20)
3 Personal survival stakes	47	(14)
4 Organizational strategy: rational or rationalization?	61	(12)
5 Keeping on course	73	(14)
Part II Changing course	87	(92)
Introduction	89	(4)
6 Flexible friends	93	(16)
7 Development for transition	109	(20)
8 Information exchange: dialogue and transitions	129	(18)
9 Managing transitions	147	(16)
10 Leadership, trust and transitions	163	(16)
Epilogue	179	(2)
Index	181