Graduate adjustment to employment is focused on. How expectations are formed and behaviours rehearsed prior to entry, how expectations, illusions and promises are transacted through recruitment, and how first steps are taken into a new world of opportunities, obligations and relationships are...

This article continues the story of graduates’ early career development which the authors began in the Vol. 18 No. 3 issue of Personnel Review . In recounting graduates’ early career experience in four departments of a multinational company, the authors reflect on such issues as:...

The industrial relations climate of a steelworks was investigated through a programme of structured interviews with shop stewards and managers at all levels. Interviewees were asked how often they handled different types of industrial relations issues, how often they interacted with their...