Management Decision: Volume 13 Issue 5

Stress and Pressures within Organisations

Cary L. Cooper, Judi Marshall

Introduction Working in organisations not only provides a large section of the population with life‐sustaining income, but also exerts its own pressures and stresses on them…

Growth, Performance and Strategy in 400 UK Holding Companies

N. Hood, S. Young

This paper sets out to examine some of the performance characteristics of holding companies in the UK in the years 1964–1973. It is difficult to define precisely the unique…

Quantitative Approaches to Forecasting Corporate Profits

Michael Firth

The annual value of equity stock exchange transactions and the annual value of mergers and acquisitions involve thousands of millions of pounds and thus considerable resources…

FINANCIAL & LEGAL NOTES

Desmond Goch

Capital Expenditure—What is Plant? The rates of the allowances for capital expenditure given to businesses as a deduction from taxable profits vary according to the nature of the…

Whatever Happened to Productivity Bargaining?

John T. Addison

“A genuine productivity agreement offers solutions to many of the typical problems of industrial relations. It raises standards of supervision and of managerial planning and…

Designing Remuneration Systems to Match Managers' Preferences

Michael White, Vivian Shackleton

Both theoretical and more practically‐orientated discussions of remuneration systems often centre on the topic of motivation. The discussion may be concerned with whether a…

Effectiveness as a Guide to Planning in the Social Services

G.R. Bayat, G. Wade, D.A. Longbottom

Introduction The purpose of social services can be defined as the provision of support services, to individuals who are unable to lead a “normal” existence within the community at…