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Assessing skills and autonomy: The job holder versus the line manager.

Green, Francis, James, Donna (2003) Assessing skills and autonomy: The job holder versus the line manager. Human Resource Management Journal, 13 (1). pp. 63-77. ISSN 1748-8583. (doi:10.1111/j.1748-8583.2003.tb00084.x) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:4857)

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Abstract

Managers and their employees may have different perceptions of the skills used in jobs. We carried out a survey aimed at explaining such differences, in respect of verbal, physical, problem-solving and planning skills, the qualifications required to get the job and indicators of workplace autonomy. First, for most skills there is a reasonably good match between the perceptions of the line manager and those of the employee. But in the case of the contested skills associated with autonomy there is little agreement. Secondly, for most skills there is a small 'perceptions bias', in the sense that employees rate required skills at a higher level than their line managers. Thirdly, consistent with the hypothesis that skills are socially constructed, when the manager is male and the worker female there is a tendency for the boss to underestimate and/or the worker to overestimate their skill level by comparison with other gender combinations.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1111/j.1748-8583.2003.tb00084.x
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Economics
Depositing User: G.F. Green
Date Deposited: 02 Sep 2008 17:01 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:43 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/4857 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Green, Francis.

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