Management Research News: Volume 5 Issue 3

THE PHILOSOPHY OF RISK MANAGEMENT

David Andrews

In a previous paper (MRN,5,1) it was shown that the liquidation of Rolls‐Royce Limited in February 1971 came about because the implied assumptions on which the RB 211 engine cost…

Job Satisfaction

P.B. Beaumont

There have been a number of advocates of the need for conducting regular job satisfaction surveys in Britain. In fact this type of information has been collected by the General…

Management and the Organisation

Skipton

The practice of management, which is very much a product of the 20th century, has evolved from respectable historical antecedents. In the Old Testament, (Exodus Chapter 18, verses…

A Contingency Approach to the Use of Manpower Modelling Techniques

Richard Davies

The City of Bradford Metropolitan Council is one of the new Councils to appear as a result of the 1974 Local Government organisation. It has wide ranging responsibilities…

Starting From Scratch‐The Work of the Thames Valley Regional Management Centre

How do you bring together in a collaborative and co‐operative framework, the management studies work of three major colleges and some 20 other establishments spread across three…

College of Industrial Management: University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Situated atop the Dammam geological dome in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the University of Petroleum and Minerals commands a view, both visually and…