“Far from encouraging firms to see their staff as human resources to be managed and developed, the Government’s reforms have reinforced the view that labour is a commodity to be dispassionately bought and sold for short-term profit, a development that bodes ill for the country’s longer term economic vitality.” (Healey, Nigel M., p.290)
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