Personnel management and the use of executive recruitment consultancies

This article examines the use of executive recruitment consultants by personnel managers. Although it is concerned with one particular activity - executive recruitment - the analysis has implications for the use of consultants more generally. In particular, it provides a critique of Torrington and M...

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Main Authors: CLARK, Ian, CLARK, Timothy Adrian Robert
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spelling sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-73042019-08-15T03:24:04Z Personnel management and the use of executive recruitment consultancies CLARK, Ian CLARK, Timothy Adrian Robert This article examines the use of executive recruitment consultants by personnel managers. Although it is concerned with one particular activity - executive recruitment - the analysis has implications for the use of consultants more generally. In particular, it provides a critique of Torrington and Mackay's largely prescriptive assertion that the peronnel function is becoming 'increasingly vulnerable to the advance of external consultancy' (1986:37). The article divides into three sections. The first outlines our survey results and reasons for initially rejecting Torrington and Mackay's (1986) explanation of the use of consultants by the personnel function. The second section proposes an alternative explanation to Torrington and Mackay's for the externalization of the executive recruitment function. In the final section these findings are put in the context of recent writings on the role and position of personnel in the organization. 1990-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6305 info:doi/10.1111/j.1748-8583.1990.tb00216.x Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Human Resources Management Organizational Behavior and Theory
institution Singapore Management University
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Singapore
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topic Human Resources Management
Organizational Behavior and Theory
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Organizational Behavior and Theory
CLARK, Ian
CLARK, Timothy Adrian Robert
Personnel management and the use of executive recruitment consultancies
description This article examines the use of executive recruitment consultants by personnel managers. Although it is concerned with one particular activity - executive recruitment - the analysis has implications for the use of consultants more generally. In particular, it provides a critique of Torrington and Mackay's largely prescriptive assertion that the peronnel function is becoming 'increasingly vulnerable to the advance of external consultancy' (1986:37). The article divides into three sections. The first outlines our survey results and reasons for initially rejecting Torrington and Mackay's (1986) explanation of the use of consultants by the personnel function. The second section proposes an alternative explanation to Torrington and Mackay's for the externalization of the executive recruitment function. In the final section these findings are put in the context of recent writings on the role and position of personnel in the organization.
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author CLARK, Ian
CLARK, Timothy Adrian Robert
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CLARK, Timothy Adrian Robert
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title Personnel management and the use of executive recruitment consultancies
title_short Personnel management and the use of executive recruitment consultancies
title_full Personnel management and the use of executive recruitment consultancies
title_fullStr Personnel management and the use of executive recruitment consultancies
title_full_unstemmed Personnel management and the use of executive recruitment consultancies
title_sort personnel management and the use of executive recruitment consultancies
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 1990
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6305
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