Human Resource Management and Technical Change.

Abstract

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