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Personnel and paradigms: four perspectives on the future
Author(s) -
Gowler Dan,
Legge Karen
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1986.tb00540.x
Subject(s) - threatened species , sociology , power (physics) , political science , epistemology , engineering ethics , management science , economics , engineering , philosophy , ecology , biology , physics , quantum mechanics , habitat
This article critically examines the emergent ‘consensus’ functionalist image of personnel management in the 1990s, contrasting it with potential images derived from other paradigmatic perspectives. The utility of the ‘consensus’ image in reinforcing personnel practitioners’ threatened power base is also discussed.