Personnel management in Spain: waiting to join the mainstream
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The personnel management profession is belatedly receiving the attention it deserves in Spain. As Spanish industry enters the 1990s, few dispute the need for a well trained personnel department that can help maximize a company's human resources. However, the influence of personnel directors in framing company policy still remains limited. Three key factors have conditioned this slow acceptance of personnel issues as key management concerns. These are the pattern of Spanish economic development, which has stressed cheap labor costs and technology acquisition; the impact of the industrialization process, which has created an unimaginative domestic private sector; and rigid labor laws that have fostered a poor industrial relations climate. If Spanish personnel directors are to heighten their influence, they will need to find better ways of integrating their ideas into mainstream management practice.
Publication Name: Personnel Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0031-5761
Year: 1992
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Personnel management in France: finding a new raison d'etre
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Personnel management in France is progressing. Since the late 1970s, the human resources function in the country has been broadening in scope, increasing in professionalism, and seeing more cooperative relations between management and labor unions. France, like all other countries, does not have a single organizational model for the HR function. French HR professionals typically are responsible for career management, remuneration, training and administration of human resource files. Increasingly, French firms are appointing directors of social affairs to take charge of industrial relations. These directors supervise various company committees dealing with employee representatives and are tasked with the adoption or implementation of labor and social security regulations. Personnel management in two companies, Moulinex and Peugeot, is discussed to better understand industrial relations in France.
Publication Name: Personnel Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0031-5761
Year: 1992
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Personnel management in Italy: it's the climate that counts
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The paradoxial nature of personnel management in Italy is the result of the country's culture. The culture drives two key components of Italy's labor relations structure: flexible and innovative employment practices, and a highly regulated employment framework. Italian managers seldom accomplish tasks through standard procedures and often employ persuasion, insistence and follow-up. In general, Italians are deeply committed and loyal to their work given that the employment climate is right. Likewise paradoxical is the Italians' leaning toward state intervention in industry despite a serious mistrust of government and authority.
Publication Name: Personnel Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0031-5761
Year: 1992
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