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HRM, Technical Workers and the Multinational Corporation
Author(s): Patrick McGovern (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 4 Jun. 1998
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415184878
- ISBN-13: 9780415184878
Book Description
This book is the first major in-depth study of the impact of contemporary management practices on a rapidly expanding set of white-collar occupations, namely technical workers. It investigates whether HRM schemes such as employee appraisals and performance related pay have transformed technical work to such an extent that it can no longer be described as a ‘service contract’. The book contains detailed examination of the nature of managerial control over employees who, by virtue of their committment, present their employers with problems that are often ignored by prescriptive models of HRM. The empirical evidence features case studies of matched pairs of hi-tech firms in the Irish Republic. The author examines recent debates about the nature of employment and the role of the multinational corporations within the so-called ‘Celtic Tiger’ Irish economy.
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About the Author
Patrick McGovern is Lecturer in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research on the employment practices of multinational corporations and human resource management has appeared in Work, Employment and Society, New Technology, Work and Employment and Human Resource Management Journal. His current research interests are the sociology of employment and economic life.
