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Procedures and Consistency Versus Flexibility and Commitment In Employee Relations: A Comment On Storey
Author(s) -
Clark Jon
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
human resource management journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.44
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1748-8583
pISSN - 0954-5395
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-8583.1993.tb00334.x
Subject(s) - consistency (knowledge bases) , flexibility (engineering) , industrial relations , human resource management , contrast (vision) , business , management , operations management , marketing , knowledge management , computer science , economics , artificial intelligence
Jon Clark, who is Professor of Industrial Relations at Southampton University, comments on one of the most important issues raised in John Storey's Developments in the Management of Human Resources : the contrast between the ‘procedure and consistency’ of the IR/ personnel tradition and the ‘business need, flexibility and commitment’ of the HRM tradition. In particular, he queries whether HRM can be successful without a firm basis in ‘procedure and consistency’.