Human Resource Strategies Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
Pt. 1	Human resource strategies
	Introduction	1
1	Right enough to be dangerously wrong: an analysis of the In Search of Excellence phenomenon	5
2	The US human resource management literature: a review	20
3	What business can learn from nonprofits	38
4	Human resource management in the public sector	47
5	The impact of corporate strategy on human resource management	59
6	A leadership dilemma: skilled incompetence	82
7	A model for the executive management of transformational change	95
8	Competitive strategies and organizational change	107
Pt. 2	Structural strategies
	Introduction	125
9	The coming of the new organization	128
10	High performance: new boundaries of acceptability in worker control	138
11	Modernist and postmodernist organization	156
Pt. 3	Cultural strategies
	Introduction	189
12	Organizational culture: origins and weaknesses	192
13	The impact of organizational culture on approaches to organizational problem-solving	213
14	Coming to a new awareness of organizational culture	237
Pt. 4	Personnel strategies
	Introduction	255
15	Building on competence: the effective use of managerial talent	260
16	Assessment centres for identifying long-term potential and for self-development	273
17	Strategic determinants of managerial labor markets: a career systems view	303
18	Corporate training strategies: the vital component?	320
19	Multiple pay contingencies: strategic design of compensation	337
	Index	347