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Description

1. xiv, 256 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. "This book examines the development of employers' human resource management and industrial relations' policies in Britain. It adopts a broad historical perspective, beginning with the inheritance from the nineteenth century and coming up to date with modern human resource management policies. It focuses on how managers organise the employment relationship, how they control work relations, and how they deal with trade unions and industrial relations. The author examines these in the context of the market within which the firm operates, and the strategy, structure, and hierarchy of the modern industrial enterprise, developing a theoretical approach which emphasises the effect of these factors on management choices." "The book shows that historically British employers tended to adopt market-based strategies rather than internal ones. Despite a post-war trend towards 'internalisation', comparison with the US, Germany and Japan reveals that this has come about only slowly and unevenly, and has not been able to reverse the relative decline in economic performance and national competitiveness."--Jacket.

Series statement

1. Cambridge studies in management ; 17

Uniform title

1. Cambridge studies in management ; 17.

Subject

1. 1800-1999
2. Personnel management > Great Britain > History > 19th century
3. Personnel management > Great Britain > History > 20th century
4. Industrial relations > Great Britain > History > 19th century
5. Industrial relations > Great Britain > History > 20th century
6. Industrial relations
7. Personnel management
8. Personeelsmanagement
9. Arbeidsomstandigheden
10. labour relations
11. human resources management
12. history
13. trend
14. manager
15. work organization
16. production management
17. technological change
18. recruitment
19. vocational training
20. collective bargaining
21. trade union
22. trade union power
23. labour dispute
24. dispute settlement
25. employment security
26. wage payment system
27. social security
28. payment of benefits
29. relations de travail
30. gestion des ressources humaines
31. histoire
32. tendance
33. cadre
34. organisation du travail
35. gestion de la production
36. changement technologique
37. recrutement
38. formation professionnelle
39. négociation collective
40. syndicat
41. pouvoir syndical
42. conflit du travail
43. règlement de conflit
44. sécurité de l'emploi
45. système de rémunération
46. sécurité sociale
47. paiement des prestations
48. relaciones laborales
49. administración de recursos humanos
50. historia
51. tendencia
52. gerente
53. organización del trabajo
54. administración de la producción
55. cambio tecnológico
56. contratación
57. formación profesional
58. negociación colectiva
59. sindicato
60. poder sindical
61. conflicto de trabajo
62. arreglo de conflicto
63. seguridad en el empleo
64. sistema de remuneración
65. seguridad social
66. pago de prestaciones
67. Great Britain
68. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
69. Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
70. Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte

Genre/Form

1. History
2. reference.
3. référence bibliographique.
4. referencia.

Contents

1. 1. Introduction: the management of labour -- pt. 1. The inheritance. 2. Markets, firms, and the management of labour in the nineteenth century -- pt. 2. Continuities and change in the first half of the twentieth century. 3. Markets, firms, and the organisation of production. 4. The evolving employment relationship. 5. Employers, unions, and collective bargaining -- pt. 3. Challenges and adjustments in the post-war years. 6. Markets, firms, and the organisation of production. 7. Industrial relations: challenges and responses. 8. Employment relations in the post-war period -- pt. 4. Conclusions. 9. Markets, firms, and the management of labour.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-246) and index.