Personnel Review: Volume 34 Issue 6

Employment relations and public services “modernisation” under Labour

Stephen Bach, Ian Kessler, Geoff White

To introduce the papers in the special issue.

Seeing stars: human resources performance indicators in the National Health Service

Rebecca Kolins Givan

This paper examines the functioning of performance ratings of the human resources (HR) function of National Health Service (NHS). In particular, it looks at the star ratings…

The death of corporatism? Managing change in the fire service

Ian Fitzgerald

To demonstrate how government policy on fires service reform was initially challenged by a stubbornly resistant fire service corporatism but finally dismantled following the 2003…

360° feedback: a critical enquiry

Arthur Morgan, Kath Cannan, Joanne Cullinane

The underpinning assumption in the adoption of 360° feedback is that it heightens an individual's self‐awareness by highlighting differences between how participants see…

UK public sector reform and the “performance agenda” in UK local government: HRM challenges and dilemmas

Lynette Harris

To examine how an external performance review process introduced as part of the public sector modernisation agenda in England and Wales has impacted on HR service provision and…

Role redesign: new ways of working in the NHS

Paula Hyde, Anne McBride, Ruth Young, Kieran Walshe

To examine the introduction of role‐redesign in the NHS and highlight implications for employment relations.

Best value and workplace partnership in local government

Mike Richardson, Stephanie Tailby, Andrew Danford, Paul Stewart, Martin Upchurch

This paper explores employee experiences concerning job security/insecurity, workload, job satisfaction and employee involvement in the aftermath of Best Value reviews in a local…

Participation and Democracy at Work

Aristea Koukiadaki