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Making money out of mergers
HUGH PARKER“…More important is the quality of planning that goes into ensuring their success. This planning always takes more time and effort than most managements realize, but it is skimped…
The pyramid, the ladder, and the matrix
JOHN ARGENTI“I suggest that all companies employing more than a few hundred people should consider the possibility of purging the pyramid of all non‐executives: the strength of the pyramid…
The public forum on prices
AUBREY JONESMany readers will be familiar with the Reports of the Prices and Incomes Board on topics from bread and bus fares to fletton bricks and university teachers' pay. But what are the…
Cost‐effectiveness in marketing and selling
ALLAN MERCERAubrey Jones has identified distinctly different rôles for the Prices and Incomes Board and the Monopolies Commission. But this can hardly be the reason for the recent conflict of…
Incentive bonuses for executives
A.J. MERRETT, M.R.M. WHITEBritish companies have salary provisions whereas American corporations have remuneration philosophies. If one is looking for examples of a highly systematized approach to the…
Payment systems, productivity and choice
JOHN GILL“… in the interests of productivity and efficiency senior managements need to pay more attention to the functioning of the existing payment system and to the negotiating of change…
Everybody's output is somebody's input
TOM WARD“The number of operator hours squandered in 'matching' documents with a very high probability of agreement must be enormous and certainly out of all proportion to what they…
The use of executive time
ROSEMARY STEWARTMANAGERS are busy people. How busy? If Parkinson is right in his statement that work expands to fill the time available, we cannot necessarily be sure that we are really busy…
Financing R & D
H.F. RANCE“Unless a company accepts R & D as an essential element in the business, it is better not to spend money on it, for the money will be wasted.”
Optimum economic manning
PETER BREWSERThe optimum manning level … depends solely on the frequency of peak loads for any established cost ratio … The degree of inefficiency caused by manning at the wrong level can…
TECHNOLOGICAL STRATEGIES for industrial companies
J.B. QUINNWHAT is involved in formulating a strategy? What kinds of factors must be considered in such planning? How can a management establish internal decision processes to properly…
Financial PR
ELLIS KOPEL“A company having securities quoted on the Stock Exchange is required by the General Undertaking to give immediate notification of dividends, profits and issues and other changes…
LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS: The Donovan Report on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations
NEIL MERRITTBEFORE examining the major recommendations of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations it is perhaps useful to restate the brief to which the Commission…
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