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Although this book is entitled Employee Relations within the Factory, there would have been some justification for calling it ‘Employing People Effectively’. This reflects the view of the authors that, while it is socially desirable that relationships within the factory should be good, this is not in itself the prime objective of an industrial organisation. Industry’s concern is with productivity and profit, and management’s responsibility is to create conditions within which these objectives can be achieved.
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© 1973 W. Mitchell and Alan R. Corbett
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Mitchell, W., Corbett, A.R. (1973). Introduction. In: Employee Relations within the Factory. Macmillan Handbooks in Industrial Management. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01784-3_1
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