Management Decision: Volume 21 Issue 4

A Profile of the British Production Manager

Keith G. Lockyer, John S. Oakland

In any country which relies heavily on manufacturing for a healthy economy, its production managers constitute a major asset. Yet a recent study has revealed that the…

ACTION LEARNING: The Cure is Started

R.W. Revans

Where We Have Got To This brief series of articles is intended to describe the order in which various things need to be thought about—and practised—in an action learning…

Transfer of Management: Japanese Practices for the Orientals?

K. John Fukuda

Introduction Japan's success, as measured by towering balance‐of‐payment surpluses, has created serious economic issues between Japan and other industrial democracies. It has even…

Managerial Recycling

Michael Cross

Introduction As in any past period, companies are under a number of pressures, both internal and external, which call for changes in management style, management functions, etc…

International Aid: Channels of Communication

E. Dennison, H. Robinson, T. Merzweiler

Scope and Scale A British firm's export director was on a tour of some African countries and, quite by chance, learnt of a £1 million aid grant for machinery which his company…

Determining Information Needs

M.P. Carter

One of the most difficult tasks facing the information analyst and the manager is the determination of management's information needs. Interest in this field started before the…