Personnel management and the use of executive recruitment consultancies

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

1-1990

Abstract

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.

Discipline

Human Resources Management | Organizational Behavior and Theory

Research Areas

Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources

Publication

Human Resource Management Journal

Volume

1

Issue

1

First Page

46

Last Page

62

ISSN

0954-5395

Identifier

10.1111/j.1748-8583.1990.tb00216.x

Publisher

Wiley: 24 months

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-8583.1990.tb00216.x

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