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Personnel Management in the Post‐Capitalistic Age
Author(s) -
Long D.G.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
asia pacific journal of human resources
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.825
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1744-7941
pISSN - 1038-4111
DOI - 10.1177/103841118402200404
Subject(s) - goodwill , layoff , recession , business , industrial relations , management , post industrial society , head (geology) , accounting , labour economics , economics , political science , law , economic growth , unemployment , keynesian economics , geomorphology , geology
The recession that climaxed in 1982/83 tested the management of both large and small companies. Organisations with histories of good industrial relations found that they were forced to layoff staff and, in the midst of these redundancies, found that goodwill and trust with employees and unions disappeared. This paper examines one Australian Company that was forced to reduce its staff from 971 to 588 and examines the way in which this was done so that trust and goodwill with employees and the trade unions was maintained. From this, using the model designed by Kuhn as a tool, the author examines the implications this has for personnel management in general as we head for the turn of the twenty‐first century.