HRM, Technical Workers and the Multinational Corporation
HRM, Technical Workers and the Multinational Corporation by Patrick McGovern, published by Routledge in 1998, offers an in-depth study of the effects of contemporary management practices on technical workers in white-collar occupations. This 184-page book explores whether human resource management schemes, such as employee appraisals and performance-related pay, have significantly altered the nature of technical work, challenging traditional notions of employment contracts.
Readers will find a detailed examination of managerial control over committed employees, highlighting issues often overlooked by standard HRM models. The book includes empirical evidence from case studies of matched pairs of high-tech firms in the Irish Republic and engages with current debates regarding employment and the influence of multinational corporations within the context of the ‘Celtic Tiger’ Irish economy.
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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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