Management Decision: Volume 4 Issue 4

Industrial Relations Reform: some neglected issues

Kevin Hawkins

Whatever happens to some of the detailed provisions of the Government's forthcoming Industrial Relations Bill, it is obvious that everyone concerned in this field will soon have…

The Industrial Training Act: Progress and Attitudes

Barrie Pettman

Progress under the Industrial Training Act The Industrial Training Act, 1964, has three main objectives: 1. To ensure an adequate supply of properly trained men and women at all…

That ‘Uncertain Feeling’ and Project Management

Peter J. November

At the start of a new product development project, a manager usually has three things: time, money and uncertainty. His problem is to reduce or eliminate the uncertainty by…

GROWTH, PROFITABILITY: and the small firm

Christabelle Allen

In 1967, the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation published the results of a survey into the financial development, growth and profitability of 300 ICFC backed companies…

Manpower ratios and productivity

Michael Fleming

The success of the business enterprise under competitive conditions depends upon the efficiency with which resources are used—in other words, its level of productivity—in relation…

Project and Product Responsibilities in Industry

S.H. Wearne

The appointment of project managers, product controllers and project engineers is becoming more common in European industry, the aim being to concentrate attention to achieving…

The C‐Link System for Studying Co‐operation in Organisations

G.J. Laing

An important factor which greatly affects the output and effectiveness of an organisation is the emotional attitude of members of the organisation to their colleagues and to their…

COMMISSION ON INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: A CASE STUDY

Patricia Turner

HOOVER is a household name. On March 2, 1970, the company's plant at Merthyr Tydfil—which concentrates on producing washing machines—was referred to the Commission on Industrial…

Facing up to below‐the‐line

Michael Morris, Martin Christopher, Don Cowell

The Nineteen Sixties witnessed a silent yet dramatic revolution, almost unheralded whilst in progress and only chronicled when it had passed its climax. This revolution was the…

Efficient forecasting and management information systems

E.A. Lowe

The need for forecasting emanates from the general uncertainty about a firm's prospects. One (expensive) way of buying insurance—at least against shorter‐term uncertainty—is, of…

Planning deep‐water ports

C.J. Beattie, A.P. Brown, M.E. Norris

The objective of the study was to find the developments giving the least total cost of transporting all the BSC's foreign ore requirements from the loading ports to the user…