Rhetoric, facts and self-fulfilling prophecies: exploring practitioners' perceptions of progress in implementing HRM.
2004
35
3
May
196-215
business strategy ; human resources management ; implementation ; survey
Personnel management
English
Bibliogr.
"Although the virtues of 'HRM' are widely espoused by its proponents, evidence of its widespread uptake by UK companies has invariably been disappointing. Why? A survey using questionnaires completed by 98 personnel and HR practitioners in a sample of 350 major UK companies was used to explore perceptions of 'progress' in implementing HRM, and this was followed-up by interviews of 24 survey respondents. While the survey and interview evidence clearly indicate that progress towards HRM is a profoundly contradictory and unfinished process, it also raises serious questions about the ability of the HR function and role to facilitate, oversee or lead processes of implementation."
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