Management Decision: Volume 21 Issue 6

Action Learning: Kindling the Touch Paper

R.W. Revans

Where We Have Got To This is the fifth article about the essential character of all action learning, whether to help improve the care of the patient in hospital, to speed the flow…

Contracts of Employment

George Paynter

The first five sections of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act, 1978, deal with the particulars which employers are obliged to put into writing in their contracts of…

Imports and the British Car Market

Dave Stewart, Stuart Cochrane

Introduction From the mid to late Seventies imports virtually doubled their share of the British car market. The reasons for this have been subject to a number of enquiries (e.g.…

Doing Business in China: Why Britons May Have the Advantage

B. Warrington

Despite the recessionary nature of the world economy the Asian Pacific circle has managed to maintain itself as one of the most rapidly growing areas. During 1978, for example…

To Advertise or to Use a Recruitment Bureau

C.J. Cowton

Introduction The importance of effective recruitment can hardly be over‐emphasised. Errors can be offset, but at a cost, either by further recruitment, or by extra training and…

Pricing Exports: Which Currency to Choose?

Nigel Piercy

International pricing is a risky and complex business—far more so than the domestic price decision. So many variables arise to confound the issue; different customer types…