Bruce Warman; Personnel Director, Vauxhall Motors

Article Abstract:

Vauxhall Motors personnel director Bruce Warman's philosophy for working practices is flexibility and job overlap throughout the organization. Warman encourages the monthly review of training and communications by 'human resource management committees', with representatives from plant management staff and personnel staff. Warman envisions a general decentralization and freedom from unnecessary personnel department controls. This would apply among first-line supervisors and in training programs. Warman says his approach is evolutionary rather than revolutionary, and he believes that the Japanese experience shows that investment in training employees will result in greater benefits than investments in robots.

Analysis, Human resource management, Automobile industry, Warman, Bruce

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Keith McCartney

Article Abstract:

Barker and Dobson Group personnel director Keith McCartney says that showing appreciation of staff is the most effective management technique, with emphasis on firmness and fairness to survive today's tough and aggressive industrial scene. McCartney is part of a group of 'aggressive managers' brought in by chairman John Fletcher. McCartney's training and previous personnel management experience is discussed, with particular emphasis on his work at BTR.

Officials and employees, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Human resource directors, McCartney, Keith, Barker and Dobson Group PLC

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