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Human Resource Strategies for Organizations in Transition

Edited by

Richard J. Niehaus

Assistant for Human Resources Analysis Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Washington, D.C.

and

Karl F. Price TPF&C, a Towers Perrin Company Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

PLENUM PRESS • NEW YORK AND LONDON

Library of Congress C8talog1ng-ln-Publ1catlon Data

Research Sy.poslu. of the Hu.an Resource Planning Society (3rd : 1989 : Newport, R.I.> Hu.an resource strategies for organizations In transition I edited by Richard ~. Niehaus and Karl F. Price. p. c •. "Proceedings of the Third Research Sy.poslu. of the Hu.an Resource Planning Society, held Hay 30-~une 2, 1989, at Salve Regina College, Newport, Rhode Island"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN-13: 978-1-4684-5759-9 e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4684-5757-5 001: 10.1007/978-1-4684-5757-5 1. Personnel .anage.ent--Unlted States--Congresses. 2. Organizational change--Unlted States--Congresses. 3. Corporate culture--Unlted States--Congresses. 4. E.ployee selectlon--Unlted States--Congresse&. 5. Eaploye8 aotlvatlon--Unlted States-Congresses. I. Nlehaus, Richard J. II. Price, Karl F. III. Title. HF5549.2.U5R47 1989 90-6759 658.3--dc20 CIP

Proceedings of the Third Research Symposium of the Human Resource Planning Society, held May 30-June 2, 1989, at Salve Regina College, Newport, Rhode Island

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PREFACE

This volume is the proceedings of a symposium entitled "Human Resource Strategies for Organizations in Transition" which was held at Salve Regina College, Newport, Rhode Island on May 30 - June 2, 1989. The meeting was sponsored by the Research Committee of the Human Resource Planning Society (HRPS). In developing the agenda, the Research Committee built upon the format of the previous HRPS research symposia. The intent in these meetings is on the linkage of the state-of-practice with the state-of-the-art. Particular attention was placed on research studies which were application oriented so that member organizations can see examples of ways to extend current practices with the knowledge presented by the applications. The meeting has sessions on: (1) Reshaping the Organization for the Twenty-first Century, (2) Coping with Major Organizational Change, (3) Organization Downsizing, (4) Evaluating the Human Resource Function and (5) The Impact of Corporate Culture on Future Human Resource Practices. Thirty papers were presented with discussion sessions at appropriate points in the meeting. This volume contains twenty one of these papers along with an introductory paper. A short summary is also provided at the beginning of each major subdivision into whi