Chasing the rainbow: How seeking status through strategy misses the point for the personnel function

Employee Relations

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 81-97

  Torrington, Derek ^a   Hall, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986173853     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425459610151475     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Baird, L., Meshoulam, I. and De Give, G. (1983, “Meshing human resource planning with strategic business planning: a model approach”, Personnel, Vol. 60 No. 5, pp. 14-25.
2. Boxall, P.F. (1994, “Placing HR strategy at the heart of business success”, Personnel Management, July, pp. 32-5.
3. Brewster, C. and Bournois, F. (1991, “Human resource management: a European perspective”, Personnel Review, Vol. 20 No. 6, pp. 4-13.
4. Brewster, C. and Smith, C. (1990, “Corporate strategy: a non-go area for personnel”, Personnel Management, Vol. 22 No. 7.
5. Flanders, A. (1970, Management and Unions, Faber & Faber, London.
6. Fombrun, C., Tichy, N.M. and Devanna, M.A. (1984, Strategic Human Resource Management, John Wiley, Chichester.
7. Gennard, J. and Kelly, J. (1994, “Human resource management: the views of personnel directors”, Human Resource Management Journal, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 15-32.
8. Guest, D. (1987, “Human resource management and industrial relations”, Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 24 No. 5 pp. 503-21.
9. Guest, D. (1989, “Personnel and HRM: can you tell the difference”, Personnel Management, Vol. 21 No. 1.
10. Guest, D. (1990, “Human resource management and the American dream”, Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 27 No. 4, pp. 377-97.
11. Guest, D. (1991, “Personnel management: the end of orthodoxy”, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 29 No. 2, pp. 149-76.
12. Hutchinson, S. and Wood, S. (1995, “The UK experience” in Personnel and the Line: Developing the New Relationship, Institute of Personnel and Development, London.
13. Kamoche, K. (1994, “A critique of a proposed reformation of strategic human resource management”, Human Resource Management Journal, Vol. 4 No. 4, pp 29-43.
14. Legge, K. (1978, Power Innovation and Problem Solving in Personnel Management, McGraw-Hill.
15. Lengnick-Hall, C.A. and Lengnick-Hall, M.L. (1988, “Strategic human resources management: a review of the literature and a proposed typography”, Academy of Management Review, Vol. 13 No. 3, pp 454-70.
16. MacKay, L. and Torrington, D.P. (1986, The Changing Nature of Personnel Management, Institute of Personnel Management, London.
17. Marginson, P., Armstrong, P., Edwards, P. and Purcell, J. (1993, The Control of Industrial Relations in Large Companies: An Initial Anaiysis of the Second Company Level IR Survey, Warwick Papers in Industrial Relations, No. 4, Industrial Relations Research Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry.
18. Miller, P (1987, “Strategic industrial relations and human resource management: distinction, definition and recognition”, Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 24 No. 4, pp. 347-61.
19. Millward, N., Stevens, M., Smart, D. and Hawes, W.R. (1992, Workplace Industrial Relations in Transition, ACAS, London.
20. Mintzberg, H. (1994, “The rise and fall of strategic planning”, Harvard Business Review, January-February, pp. 107-14.
21. Monks, K. (1992, “Models of personnel management: a means of understanding the diversity of personnel practices?”, Human Resource Management Journal, Vol. 3 No. 2, pp 29-41.
22. Peters, T. and Waterman, R. (1982, In Search of Excellence, Random House, New York, NY.
23. Purcell, J. (1995, “Corporate strategy and its link with human resource strategy”, in Storey, J. (Ed.), Human Resource Management: A Critical Text, Routledge, London.
24. Purcell, J. and Ahlstrand, B. (1994, Human Resource Management in the Multidivisional Company, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
25. Royal Commission of Trade Unions and Employers’ Associations (1968, Report, HMSO, London.
26. Schuler, R.S. (1989, “Repositioning the human resource function: transformation or demise?”, Academy of Management Executive, Vol. 4 No. 3, pp. 49-60.
27. Sisson, K. (1995, “Human resource management and the personnel function”, in Storey, J. (Ed.), Human Resource Management: A Critical Text, Routledge, London.
28. Storey, J. (1989, Storey, J. (1992), Developments in the Management of Human Resources, lackwell Business, Oxford.
29. Storey, J. (1992, Developments in the Management of Human Resources, Blackwell Business, Oxford.
30. Storey, J. (1995, “Is HRM catching on?”, International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 16 No. 4, pp. 3-10.
31. Thurley, K. (1981, “Personnel management in the UK: a case for urgent treatment”, Personnel Management, August, pp. 24-8.
32. Tyson, S. (1995, Human Resource Strategy, Pitman Publishing, London.
33. Tyson, S. and Fell, A. (1995, “A focus on skills, not organisations”, People Management, p. 43.
34. Watson, T.J. (1977, The Personnel Managers, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London.