Readership: Academics, 3rd year undergraduates, and post-graduate students of Management Studies (Personnel Management and Industrial Relations), Economics (Labour and Personnel Economics), and Sociology (Sociology of Employment and of Organizations); Managers and other professionals working for organizations within the areas of Human Resource Management, Industrial Relations, and Organization Theory.
David Marsden, Professor of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics
"Marsden's deductive analysis of employment systems is interesting and insightful from a micro-level perspective." - Suzanne J.Konzelmann
""A recent elegantly written book by Professor David Marsden at the London School of Economics provides further evidence of the need for the closing of that perceived gap between work and how it is organised." Robert Taylor, Financial Times, 03/02/2000"
Part I: A Theory of Employment Systems 1: The Employment Relationship 2: The Limits of Managerial Authority 3: Diffusion and Predominance of Employment Rules 4: Classification, and the Consolidation of Employment Systems Part II: Evidence and Personnel Management Implications 5: Employment Systems: comparative evidence 6: Performance Management 7: Pay and Incentives 8: Skills and Labour Market Structure Part III: Conclusions 9: Employment Systems and the Theory of the Firm: societal diversity References
