International Journal of Manpower: Volume 7 Issue 4

Manpower Requirements of the Electronic Sub‐Assembly Test Process

L. Brennan, P. Claffey, J. Dineen, M.E.J. O'Kelly

Electronic sub‐assemblies are now a common feature of many products. The final output of production in areas such as computers, consumer goods, instrumentation and…

Individual Propensities for Emotional Supportiveness within a Dual Career Context: Work and Non‐work Reactions

Arthur G. Bedeian, Kevin W. Mossholder, John Touliatos

One challenge increasingly arising in individuals' personal lives is balancing life style and career to maintain a satisfactory long‐term relationship with a spouse who also has a…

Basic Needs and the Manpower Dilemma of Kuwait

Djehane A. Hosni, Sulayman S. Al‐Qudsi

The literature has more than exhausted the issue of growth versus basic needs. The conventional growth oriented strategies of the fifties and the sixties supported the…

The Political Dimensions of QWL

Albert Cherns

It is a commonplace that all actions are, in some sense of the term, “political”. I shall not therefore, then, flog a dead horse and offer to prove by learned quotation and…

Management Development for the New Work Culture

Philip R. Harris

Innovation is the act of introducing something new into the established order or way of thinking. It need not be limited to novel products or process alone, but can also apply to…

Labour Market Outlook in the Construction Industry

Masudul Alam Choudhury

Our main objective in this article is to discuss the problems of construction labour market stabilisation in the context of technological change. To study this topic the article…