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Change: The Strategic Human Resource Management Challenges
Author(s) -
Saul Peter
Publication year - 1987
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 - 10.1177/103841118702500110
Subject(s) - shock (circulatory) , organizational change , human resources , human resource management , political science , management , history , business , operations management , economics , public relations , medicine
Alvin Toffler's book, “Future Shock”, is now some 16 years old and yet we are still trying to come to terms with the increasing rates of change in our lives that he so vividly described. Rosabeth Moss‐Kanter, author of “The Change Masters”, claims that in many highly competitive industries “the mean time between surprises is shorter than the organisation's reaction time”.