THE MIDDLE PERIOD

1930-1965

Great Depression

GDP

30% Unemployed

WELFARE CAPITALIST

LEISERSON

Depression has undone 15 years or

so of good personnel work

New Deal

Minimum wage laws

Social insurance programs

Mass unionism Public works

spending

HRMWages

ConditionsEmployme

nt procedure

sCollective bargaining

POSITIVE NEGATIVE Companies established or

strengthened their personnel programs to avoid unionization

Once unionized, companies needed to add personnel and labor relations staff

Unions pushed for wage standardization, job classification systems, formal grievance systems, and written employment rules

Many corporate labor programs were removedHRM function lost professional prestige, worker confidence, and public approvalHRM lost power and influence at the strategic level

Collective bargaining

Need for recruitment and selection specialists1

Need for training programs and staff2

Need to implement new job evaluation procedures and systematize and formalize compensation procedures3

Proliferation of employee

benefit programs

4

1950: Organization Man

Industrial relations

labor relations Personnel

JAPAN

PRIMARY SECTOR

SECONDARY SECTOR

JAPAN

‘PRODUCTIVITY MIRACLE’

1980

Loyalty, cooperation,

and hard work

EUROPE

Payroll office

Records manager

‘Service’ concept

GREAT BRITAIN

CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PERSONNEL AND DEVELOPMENT

THE MIDDLE PERIOD

1930-1965