Management Decision: Volume 27 Issue 3

Decision Making in the Promotion Interview

Robert Wareing, Janet Stockdale

The reliability and validity of decisions on selection, placement,appraisal and promotion made in employment interviews are questioned.The article concludes that a bias is…

Innovation: People and Implementation

Tony Morden

This is the second of two linked articles on strategy forinnovation and its implementation. The purpose of the first article wasto examine the strategic process of planning…

A Study of Quality Circles in Whitecollar Areas

A.I. Temple, B.G. Dale

A study carried out at UMIST of the operation of white‐collarcircles in manufacturing firms is reported. Despite the problemsassociated with initiating and sustaining white‐collar…

China’s Management: Tradition and Reform

John Fukuda

In the person of Emperor Ch’in Shihuang China had one of thegreatest managers of all time. In spite of its history, however, todayChina is in serious need of management reform…

Successful Acquisitions and the Role of Management

Peter D. Hall, David Norburn

Acquisitions are a key element of corporate strategy. Theperformances of organisations involved in mergers and acquisitions areexamined. The article also examines the significance…

Out of Bedlam: Management by Quality Leadership

Frank Price

Possible responses to a changing world are looked at in terms of anamusing case study and analysed from the viewpoints first of totalquality management (statistical process…

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/EUM0000000004676. When citing the…

Co‐Makership

J. Bevan

Co‐makership is based on the principle that buyers and supplierscan gain more benefits by cooperating than by pursuing self‐interest atany cost to others. Profitability and market…

Conversational Control

Charles J. Margerison

Conversation control is a key managerial skill. A manager must knowwhen to talk and when to listen. Conversational skills are a key toeffective performance. Listening is of equal…