Showing papers by "All Saints' College published in 1989"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate empirically and to analyse the human resource management practices of comparable organisations representing the public-private/service-manufacturing sectors in Canada and the United Kingdom, and establish or indicate the causal factors underlying any changes in such management occurring in roughly the last decade.
Abstract: This is a report on work in progress to investigate empirically and to analyse the human resource management practices of comparable organisations representing the public‐private/service‐ manufacturing sectors in Canada and the United Kingdom, and to establish or indicate the causal factors underlying any changes in such management occurring in, roughly, the last decade.
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TL;DR: Weisbord talks about dignity, meaning and community throughout the whole book, but never clarifies what he means as mentioned in this paper, and draws upon the relevant literature in a selective way.
Abstract: Weisbord talks about dignity, meaning and community throughout the whole book, but never clarifies what he means. The author draws upon the relevant literature in a selective way. Consultants and action researchers who often emphasize action more than research are well represented in the list of references, while ’real’ academics are not. Amongst the most important missing references are labour process theorists, studies on the history of industrial behaviour (like Rose 1975), people taking a critical view on participation (like Blumberg 1968) and (other) authors treating the power/politics aspects of workplaces. Taking aspects and ideas from this type of literature into account would have weakened the politically naive impression of the book and increased its value for at least the target group of teachers/students.