Assessing the adoption of HRM by small and medium-sized manufacturing organizations

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Recent research based on a comparative case-study approach with 16 concerns has focused on the use of HRM in traditional brownfield-site, small and medium-sized manufacturing concerns in the UK. It was found that only a very small number of the companies studied had adopted a strategic approach to HRM, with most having a reactive, opportunistic approach which has progressed little since the early 1980s. Further HRM research during the rest of the 1990s must look at the impact of changing economic, social and political conditions on relations between managers and workers.

Labor relations, Corporations, British

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Part-time work in the public health service of Denmark, France and the United Kingdom

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The introduction of part-time working practices in the health services of the UK, Denmark and France were found to be a response to job creation, flexible working patterns and cost reducing. Researchers found the high levels of female part-time workers in the Uk health service and a detrimental affect on the attitudes of full-time workers, who considered part-time workers as unprofessional and lacking skills. Part-time workers in France and Denmark failed to attract such negative response from full-time workers.

Business Personnel Management, Research, Management, Netherlands, France, Medical personnel, Management research, Part-time employment, Part time employment

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Managing people in China's foreign trade corporations: some evidence of change

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China's changing attitudes towards economic and general business practices as a result of its 'open door' policy have resulted in changing personnel practices within Chinese industry. There has arisen a substantial interest in Western-style human resources management. An account of changing personnel practices in China, with reference to four case studies and available literature, is presented.

China, Corporations, Chinese

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