Human Resource Management and Technical Change / Edition 1

by Jon Clark

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803987876
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	08/19/1993
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jon Clark is Professor of Industrial Relations in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Southampton.

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 Mc Loughlin
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