Journal article
Moving beyond the mechanistic model: An alternative approach to staffing for contemporary organizations
Human resource management review, Vol.7(2), pp.157-184
07/01/1997
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-4822(97)90021-8
Abstract
The currently accepted model of employee staffing is grounded in traditional principles of industrial psychology which stem from concepts associated with a view of organizations as machines. This perspective is incompatible with modern organizations that are frequently structured around networks and teams rather than around individuals performing jobs. A new staffing model based on the notion of organizing through emergent relationships is developed to explain how modern organizations select new members and develop agreements that define their roles. This model acknowledges the fact that individual roles emerge around idiosyncratic characteristics of individuals and can not be adequately defined through prehire job analysis. Implications of this model for research are discussed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Moving beyond the mechanistic model: An alternative approach to staffing for contemporary organizations
- Creators
- Greg L. Stewart - Vanderbilt UniversityKenneth P. Carson - University of Tennessee at Knoxville
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Human resource management review, Vol.7(2), pp.157-184
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- DOI
- 10.1016/S1053-4822(97)90021-8
- ISSN
- 1053-4822
- eISSN
- 1873-7889
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/01/1997
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984380478202771
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