Personnel Review: Volume 25 Issue 4

Muddle in the middle: organizational restructuring and middle management careers

Helen Newell, Sue Dopson

Considers the extent to which one organization through rationalization and redundancy programmes has violated its psychological contracts with its middle manager employees by…

The graduate management trainee preselection interview: Candidates’ perceptions of the influence of interpersonal and communication factors on the interview outcomes

Androniki Papadopoulou, Elizabeth Ineson, David Williams

Describes a study which aimed to capture the candidates’ perceptions of a graduate employment interview, in particular how the interviewer’s manner and ability may affect…

Supervisor and manager styles in handling discipline and grievance: Part two ‐ approaches to handling discipline and grievance

Derek Rollinson, Caroline Hook, Margaret Foot, Janet Handley

Examines the relative influence of a number of factors that can affect the approach (handling style) of a supervisor or manager when dealing with a disciplinary or grievance…

Review article: Empowerment, change and information technology: socio‐technical design and business process re‐engineering

Nathalie N. Mitev

Critically reviews and compares the concepts of business process re‐engineering (BPR), which has recently addressed the issue of changing organizations through the use of…