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Restructuring the Personnel Function: the Case of Nhs Trusts 1
Author(s) -
Bach Stephen
Publication year - 1994
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.1748-8583.1994.tb00369.x
Subject(s) - restructuring , function (biology) , context (archaeology) , human resource management , industrial relations , business , management , unit (ring theory) , public relations , accounting , political science , economics , finance , psychology , paleontology , mathematics education , evolutionary biology , biology
Stephen Bach, who is Lecturer in Industrial Relations at the Warwick Business School and an Associate Fellow of its Industrial Relations Research Unit, examines the impact of the internal market in the NHS on the role, organisation and influence of the personnel function. He argues that personnel specialists have not been able to fulfil expectations of them and occupy a peripheral role within NHS trusts. This has occurred because of their limited involvement in corporate decision making, the difficulties of decentralising personnel practice and the absence of a strategic direction for the management of human resources at national level. In this context, he argues that the prospects for the personnel function and the potential for an integrated, long‐term approach to the management of staff in the NHS remain at best uncertain.