Managers as employees : an international comparison of the changing character of managerial employment / edited by Myron J. Roomkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roomkin, Myron.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Executives.

Executives--Salaries, etc.

Comparative management.

Physical Description:

xiv, 288 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

Summary:

Exploring the role of managers as employees in Britain, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, and Japan, Managers as Employees documents the differences and similarities that exist in the employment relationships of managers in these developed countries, and identifies the forces that shape and regulate these relationships.

In this book, editor Myron Roomkin has invited international experts to write papers that explain how managers' employment relationships have been affected by significant developments over the past two decades in each of these countries. They survey such issues as recessions; periods of inflation; the oil shocks of 1973 and 1978; the internationalism of business; changing work force demographics, such as feminization and aging; and shifting patterns of regulation and deregulation. Also discussed are the ways managers are prepared for work and advance professionally, the economics of the managerial labor market, and the role of company personnel policies in managerial employee situations.

An illuminating guide for all persons interested in the internationalism of business and the nature of indigenous managerial groups in specific industrialized countries, Managers as Employees will be an indispensable aid for business and human resources management students, executives, managerial trainees, managers, economists, and sociologists.

Contents:

Part II English-speaking Countries 15

Chapter 2. Britain / Greg Bamber, Ed Snape 17

Chapter 3. United States / Myron J. Roomkin 57

Chapter 4. Australia / Russell D. Lansbury, Annabelle Quince 97

Chapter 5. New Zealand / David F. Smith 131

Part III Continental European Countries 149

Chapter 6. Germany / Eberhard Witte 151

Chapter 7. Sweden / Karl-Olof Faxen, Hakan Lundgren 176

Chapter 8. France / Jacques Rojot 202

Chapter 9. Italy / Claudio Pellegrini 228

Part IV Japan 253

Chapter 10. Japan / Vladimir Pucik, Myron J. Roomkin 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

0195043227

OCLC:

17652460