... blue-collar workers and unions of some white-collar workers have challenged the unilateral exercise of managerial authority in plants, stores, and offices. Management decisions on hiring, promotion, transfer, layoff, discipline, Wages, and salaries, methods of wage payment, fringe benefits, etc. are subject to provisions of collective agreement. Management initiates decisions; the union may question them through the grievance procedure, arbitration ... ...

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... its main shortcomings (Storey, 1989: p. 3). There are many basic similarities, but also obvious differences, between the two models (Legge, 1989: p. 40). Schein (1987) sees HRM as a philosophy, and maybe even a discipline in its own right, where as personnel is a function. The philosophy of personnel management is to take a "localised, problem-solving approach, directed principally at "workers"" (Ezzamel, 1996: p. 64). In contrast ... ...

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