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
Citation
CLARK, Ian and CLARK, Timothy Adrian Robert.
Personnel management and the use of executive recruitment consultancies. (1990). Human Resource Management Journal. 1, (1), 46-62.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6305
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-8583.1990.tb00216.x