Abstract

Bryn Jones, Peter Scott, Brian Bolton and Alan Bramley discuss the results of their cross‐sectoral study of manufacturing firms in the UK. They find that policy of treating graduate engineers as an elite human resource is mostly confined to consortia having international cooperative links and to companies with ‘central interventionist’ HRD policies. the high degree of decentralisation characteristic of UK‐owned companies, however, combined with the disproportionate recruitment of non‐engineer managers, restricted the career development of engineers.All four authors are from the University of Bath. Bryn Jones and Peter Scott are from the School of Social Sciences. Brian Bolton and Alan Bramley are from the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and the School of Mechanical Engineering.

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