The Role of Social Agency in the Application of New Organisation and Management Strategies: Employee Responses to HRM Packages in Three UK Automotive Companies

Abstract

Current debates about new management strategies exhibit a marked tendency to regard economic, political and social changes largely as though they amount to the end of an old era and the beginning of something new. New production arrangements have been envisaged before, usually with reference to the transitionary period of industrial development around the late 1960s and early 1970s. Others have described current transitions to new management arrangements variously as part of Post Fordism, of Japanisation, of Lean Production, or of Toyotaism.

Citation

Garrahan, P. and Stewart, P. (1992), "The Role of Social Agency in the Application of New Organisation and Management Strategies: Employee Responses to HRM Packages in Three UK Automotive Companies", Management Research News, Vol. 15 No. 5/6, pp. 13-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb028209