Human Resource Management and Technical Change

by Jon Clark

• ISBN13: 9780803987876
• ISBN10: 0803987870
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-08-19
• Publisher: Sage Publications
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Summary

What role do human resource managers play in the processes of technical change in organizations? What opportunities or constraints are presented by different dimensions of technical change? How does technical change affect such issues as job design, supervision, total quality management, team-working, increased flexibility, skills training and employee involvement? In addressing these central themes and debates, this book provides a systematic analysis of the relations between technical change and human resource management (HRM).The contributors draw on research and case studies to clearly demonstrate that effective technical change in organizations is integrally related to effective HRM - as much by general and line manag

Table of Contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO THE ISSUES

Personnel Management, Human Resource Management and Technical Change - Jon Clark

The Role of Personnel Specialists - Karen Legge

Centrality or Marginalization?

PART TWO: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND TECHNICAL CHANGE IN PRACTICE

Findings from the Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys - W W Daniel and Neil Millward

Personnel Leadership in Technical and Human Resource Change - Chris Hendry

Human Resource Specialists and Technical Change at Greenfield Sites - David Preece

Full Flexibility and Self-Supervision in an Automated Factory - Jon Clark

Human Resource Management in `Surveillance' Companies - Graham Sewell and Barry Wilkinson

Introducing On-Line Processing - David Collinson

Conflicting Human Resource Policies in Insurance

Technical Change and Human Resource Management in the Non-Union Firm - Ian McLoughlin

Towards Factory 2000 - John Bessant

Designing Organizations for Computer-Integrated Technologies

PART THREE: CONCLUSION

Managing People in a Time of Technical Change - Jon Clark

Conclusions and Implications