This article studies the restructuring process following a cross-border merger between two pharmaceutical companies. Mergers and takeovers make a favourable scenario for researching the capacity that multinationals have for disseminating their policies and practices beyond the frontiers of their...

Considers management views on the operation of quality management (QM) strategies in two service sector organizations, one in financial services and the other in hotel & catering. Examines some of the soft/HRM aspects of quality management. Finds that there have been moves towards the more...

This paper explains varying degrees of employee commitment to organisational change across four organisations. Of the many workplace innovations in recent years, Quality Management (QM) is one of the most common and also, potentially, the most far-reaching. QM is the backdrop for a focus on...

Books Reviewed Jerard F. Kehow (ed), Managing Selection in Changing Organizations: Human Resource Strategies Paul Sparrow and Mick Marchington (eds), Human Resource Management: The New Agenda Liz Whalley and Mike Smith, Deception in Selection Robert W. Eder and Michael M. Harris (eds), The...

The rise of modern corporations has been accompanied by an expansion of salaried executives who have replaced owner-managers. With this expansion, the new class of managers/executives came to regard themselves as stewards of large and complex corporations, and not principally or exclusively as...

This article discusses the diffusion of employment practices across borders in multinational companies (MNCs). Case study data are used to address two central questions: whether all MNCs attempt to engage in diffusion, and how this process occurs. We argue that diffusion is not a universal...

This paper surveys recent case study evidence addressing the implications of task-based teamworking for front-line employees. It refers primarily to three manufacturing companies in the UK. All three companies faced significant external challenges deriving from increased competition, and in each...