ABSTRACT
The Armed Services, in common with other public sector organisations have experienced rationalisation and restructuring on a large scale during the 1990s. This has occurred as a result of the ending of the ‘Cold War’, a change in the nation’s defence priorities, and various internal and external reviews, most notably Options for Change, 1 the Bett Inquiry, 2 the Strategic Defence Review (SDR) 3 and the Armed Forces Overarching Personnel Strategy (AFOPS). 4 These have been accompanied by the recent adoption and implementation of HRM practices and techniques by senior management.
