There has been a spate of articles recently on how to design and install successful appraisal schemes. Hardly an issue of a personnel or management journal appears without some advice on how to make appraisal succeed or suggesting reasons why such schemes fail. In such a situation one must have...

On the whole appraisal schemes and interviews are not popular with those who are asked to implement them. This resistance, which has occasioned a great deal of debate and anguish in the management literature is usually held to result either from a lack of training and general sophistication on...

This article makes a significant contribution to the debate about changes in the management of employee relations over the 1980s. Drawing upon data from 40 organisations, the author attempts to assess the extent of these changes in typical, rather than special case, companies. He finds that the...

After a degree of retrenchment in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the late 1980s has brought a burst of enthusiasm and almost frenzied activity on the management education and development front. Consultants specialising in management development activities appear to be flourishing. The private...