Personnel Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice

by Sisson, Keith; Bach, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780631212928
• ISBN10: 0631212922
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

This new and thoroughly up-dated edition of the best-selling Personnel Management in Britain provides a challenging analysis of recent thinking and developments.

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