Personnel Management in Recession and Recovery: A Comparative Analysis of What the Surveys Say

Abstract

Since the late 1970s, the study of the role, structure and functions of personnel management in the United Kingdom has been greatly facilitated by surveys emerging from a number of large‐scale surveys. A major interest in interpreting the data from these surveys has been to evaluate the impact of recession, and, latterly, recovery on the power, structure and roles of personnel departments and personnel specialists in recent years. The survey data are used comparatively to evaluate the empirical plausibility of the different scenarios which have arisen, and to account for the results that emerge.

Citation

Legge, K. (1988), "Personnel Management in Recession and Recovery: A Comparative Analysis of What the Surveys Say", Personnel Review, Vol. 17 No. 2, pp. 2-72. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055584