Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the privatisation and restructuring of social housing provision upon union leadership in the sector. The paper explores how local union leaders have adapted to radical reforms in the nature and organization of social housing...

Recent developments in restructuring, delayering, downsizing and flexible employment strategies have cast doubt on traditional models of high‐potential career development, especially high‐flyer or fast‐track programmes. In the career management field, the debate has focused on changes in...

Systems thinking and organisation development (OD) are increasingly recognised as core foundations of contemporary HRD. However, most current thinking in OD is based on outdated, simplistic systems models incapable of dealing adequately with complexity, and so cannot as constituted contribute to...