Handmaid's tale or midwives of change? HR managers and organizational innovation
✍ Scribed by Abigail Marks; Patricia Findlay; James Hine; Paul Thompson; Alan McKinlay
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 163 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1086-1718
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✦ Synopsis
Handmaid's tale or midwives of change? HR managers and organizational innovation T his article draws on a research project, `The Manufacturing of Workplace Innovation', funded under the ESRC Innovation Research Programme. * The main focus is the developing roles of HR practitioners as they seek to fashion a strategic position in the change process * It looks at two large spirits companies Ð United Distillers and Allied Distillers Ltd Ð and the characteristics of their respective change programmes *
Both change programmes created opportunities for HR to expand its in¯uence. The extent to which these were taken re¯ected its capacity to grasp culture as both de®ning values and changing practices * The creation of HR as prime movers in the change process creates a culture burden' in which they are subject to dual pressure to sell the message' to employees, while delivering on unrealistic expectations of attitudinal change to corporate management