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Publication date: 1 June 1992

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/00483489110000390. When citing the…

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This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/00483489110000390. When citing the article, please cite: George F. Thomason, (1991), “The Management of Personnel”, Personnel Review, Vol. 20 Iss: 2, pp. 3 - 10.

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Management Decision, vol. 30 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0025-1747

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Publication date: 1 February 1948

F.C. Francis

The foundation collection of the printed books now forming the Library of the British Museum was that of Sir Hans Sloane. This comprised about 40,000 volumes. To it was added in…

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The foundation collection of the printed books now forming the Library of the British Museum was that of Sir Hans Sloane. This comprised about 40,000 volumes. To it was added in 1759 the Royal collection, begun in the time of Henry VII and inherited by George II from his predecessors on the throne.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 4 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 December 1907

THE enterprise of two London newspapers, the Tribune (for the second time) and the Daily Chronicle, in organizing exhibitions of books affords a convenient excuse for once again…

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THE enterprise of two London newspapers, the Tribune (for the second time) and the Daily Chronicle, in organizing exhibitions of books affords a convenient excuse for once again bringing forward proposals for a more permanent exhibition. On many occasions during the past twenty years the writer has made suggestions for the establishment of a central book bazaar, to which every kind of book‐buyer could resort in order to see and handle the latest literature on every subject. An experiment on wrong lines was made by the Library Bureau about fifteen years ago, but here, as in the exhibitions above mentioned, the arrangement was radically bad. Visiting the Daily Chronicle show in company with other librarians, and taking careful note of the planning, one was struck by the inutility of having the books arranged by publishers and not by subjects. Not one visitor in a hundred cares twopence whether books on electricity, biography, history, travel, or even fairy tales, are issued by Longmans, Heinemann, Macmillan, Dent or any other firm. What everyone wants to see is all the recent and latest books on definite subjects collected together in one place. The arrangements at the Chronicle and Tribune shows are just a jumble of old and new books placed in show‐cases by publishers' names, similar to the abortive exhibition held years ago in Bloomsbury Street. What the book‐buyer wants is not a miscellaneous assemblage of books of all periods, from 1877 to date, arranged in an artistic show‐case and placed in charge of a polite youth who only knows his own books—and not too much about them—but a properly classified and arranged collection of the newest books only, which could be expounded by a few experts versed in literature and bibliography. What is the use of salesmen in an exhibition where books are not sold outright? If these exhibitions were strictly limited to the newest books only, there would be much less need for salesmen to be retained as amateur detectives. Another decided blemish on such an exhibition is the absence of a general catalogue. Imagine any exhibition on business lines in which visitors are expected to cart away a load of catalogues issued separately by the various exhibitors and all on entirely different plans of arrangement! The British publisher in nearly everything he does is one of the most hopeless Conservatives in existence. He will not try anything which has not been done by his grandfather or someone even more remote, so that publishing methods remain crystallized almost on eighteenth century lines. The proposal about to be made is perhaps far too revolutionary for the careful consideration of present‐day publishers, but it is made in the sincere hope that it may one day be realized. It has been made before without any definite details, but its general lines have been discussed among librarians for years past.

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New Library World, vol. 10 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 February 1991

George F. Thomason

The broad approaches to the acquisition and utilisation of humanresources at different phases in the growth of industry are examined. Itis concluded that at each stage some…

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The broad approaches to the acquisition and utilisation of human resources at different phases in the growth of industry are examined. It is concluded that at each stage some relationship exists between business strategy and human resourcing responses made to external labour market conditions, even if the human resource strategy is not always fully integrated with the business strategy. A four‐fold classification of approaches to managing human resources is suggested as a device for organising thinking about these phenomena.

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Personnel Review, vol. 20 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0048-3486

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Publication date: 1 October 1991

George Thomason

The British public sector comprises the civil and military services, the educational, health, safety and security services, and a small number of trading enterprises (the…

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The British public sector comprises the civil and military services, the educational, health, safety and security services, and a small number of trading enterprises (the ‘nationalised industries’) which remain in public ownership. The national Exchequer is either wholly or partly involved in the funding and control of the various services, the other partner where control is shared being the local government authorities or the health authorities. The nature and extent of both funding and control are in course of change as attempts are made to devolve responsibility for service management to local bodies and to introduce a closer financial control of their activities from the centre.

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Management Research News, vol. 14 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0140-9174

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Publication date: 1 January 1985

Since the first Volume of this Bibliography there has been an explosion of literature in all the main areas of business. The researcher and librarian have to be able to uncover…

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Since the first Volume of this Bibliography there has been an explosion of literature in all the main areas of business. The researcher and librarian have to be able to uncover specific articles devoted to certain topics. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume III, in addition to the annotated list of articles as the two previous volumes, contains further features to help the reader. Each entry within has been indexed according to the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus and thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid information retrieval. Each article has its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. The first Volume of the Bibliography covered seven journals published by MCB University Press. This Volume now indexes 25 journals, indicating the greater depth, coverage and expansion of the subject areas concerned.

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Management Decision, vol. 23 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0025-1747

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Publication date: 1 August 1936

SEPTEMBER this year will be unique in the history of the librarian in England in that for the first time in nearly sixty years the annual conference of the Library Association has…

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SEPTEMBER this year will be unique in the history of the librarian in England in that for the first time in nearly sixty years the annual conference of the Library Association has already become a memory only. There are those who profess to believe that the conference should be restored to the autumn months. It may be suggested on the other hand that the attendance at Margate lent no assistance to that point of view; indeed, the Margate conference was one of the most pleasant, one of the most successful, of which we have record. Nevertheless, if it can be proved that any large body of librarians was unable to be present owing to the change of month, it appears to us that the matter should be considered sympathetically. Although no one holds any longer the view that one week's attendance at a conference will teach more than many months' study in hermit‐like seclusion—the words and sentiments are those of James Duff Brown—because to‐day there is much more intimate communication between librarians than there was when that sentiment was expressed, there is enormous value, and the adjective is not an exaggeration, in one large meeting of librarians in body in the year. It is an event to which every young librarian looks forward as the privilege to be his when he reaches a high enough position in the service; attendance is a privilege that no librarian anywhere would forego. And this, in spite of the fact that there is usually a grumble because the day is so full of meetings that there is very little chance of such recreation as a seaside, or indeed any other, place visited, usually provides for the delegates.

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New Library World, vol. 39 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 November 1978

SAID Sir Harold Wilson when he was Prime Minister, “One man's wage increase is another worker on the dole.” It seems as if that axiom has been forgotten. Members of this Labour…

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SAID Sir Harold Wilson when he was Prime Minister, “One man's wage increase is another worker on the dole.” It seems as if that axiom has been forgotten. Members of this Labour Government which, it must be admitted, has striven manfully and successfully to bring inflation down, are now speaking with hopeless fatalism of any army of workless likely to reach over three million in a heartbreaking short space of time.

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Work Study, vol. 27 no. 11
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

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Publication date: 1 May 1984

John W. Leopold and P.B. Beaumont

The authors discuss the typology of personnel officers in the National Health Service. On the basis of a survey of Scottish Health Boards they conclude that NHS personnel officers…

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The authors discuss the typology of personnel officers in the National Health Service. On the basis of a survey of Scottish Health Boards they conclude that NHS personnel officers are “insiders” rather than “outsiders” bringing their specialist skills from elsewhere.

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Employee Relations, vol. 6 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0142-5455

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Publication date: 1 February 1976

Suzanne Richbell

Many managements have responded to the problem of decreasing control in the work situation by implementing participative schemes. Such schemes involve a change from the more…

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Many managements have responded to the problem of decreasing control in the work situation by implementing participative schemes. Such schemes involve a change from the more traditional confrontation or pure conflict process of bargaining to an approach based on joint problem‐solving and the enhancement of common interest. In the terminology of Walton and McKersie, there is a move from ‘distributive’ to ‘integrative’ bargaining. This paper is concerned with the fact that, in many cases, the approach to participation has tended to ignore the pluralistic nature of organizations. Often, the problem of loss of control in organizations is seen in global terms and the considered solution is deemed to lie in some generalized form of participation.

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Personnel Review, vol. 5 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0048-3486

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