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The future of human resource management: March and Simon (1958) revisited

The future of human resource management: March and Simon (1958) revisited recent years, however, the world of work has changed fundamentally due to increasing global competition, a shift to knowledge-based work, enabling information technology and other related factors. The changing work world has led to basic issues surrounding “who” participates in the organization and “what” participation means coming to the fore in the 90s as critical challenges for HRM. These issues connect squarely to March and Simon’s description of three key variables which must be managed relative to the decision to participate: • participants’ balance of inducements and contributions, • definition of who are the organizational participants, • desirability and ease of movement in and out of the organization. In what follows, we will discuss these key variables in the less examined “decision to participate” and their implications for the future of HRM. Our guiding premise is that the basic challenges of organization have not really changed over the 40 or 50 years since March, Simon, and others first presented them. What has changed is how these challenges are now framed and how firms attempt to resolve them. The changing work world has led to basic issues surrounding “who” participates in the organization and “what” participation means coming to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Human Resource Management Wiley

The future of human resource management: March and Simon (1958) revisited

Bowen, David E.; Siehl, Caren
Human Resource Management , Volume 36 (1) – Mar 1, 1997
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Wiley
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Copyright © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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0090-4848
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1099-050X
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10.1002/(SICI)1099-050X(199721)36:1<57::AID-HRM10>3.0.CO;2-B
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Abstract

recent years, however, the world of work has changed fundamentally due to increasing global competition, a shift to knowledge-based work, enabling information technology and other related factors. The changing work world has led to basic issues surrounding “who” participates in the organization and “what” participation means coming to the fore in the 90s as critical challenges for HRM. These issues connect squarely to March and Simon’s description of three key variables which must be managed relative to the decision to participate: • participants’ balance of inducements and contributions, • definition of who are the organizational participants, • desirability and ease of movement in and out of the organization. In what follows, we will discuss these key variables in the less examined “decision to participate” and their implications for the future of HRM. Our guiding premise is that the basic challenges of organization have not really changed over the 40 or 50 years since March, Simon, and others first presented them. What has changed is how these challenges are now framed and how firms attempt to resolve them. The changing work world has led to basic issues surrounding “who” participates in the organization and “what” participation means coming to

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Human Resource Management – Wiley

Published: Mar 1, 1997

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