Citation
(2001), "A golden hello", Work Study, Vol. 50 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ws.2001.07950aaa.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2001, MCB UP Limited
A golden hello
A golden hello
No, unfortunately, I'm not offering you an incentive to join the Work Study readership. (Presumably any incentive would be wasted since you're already reading this.) The sub-heading refers to the fact that this issue is the first one in the fiftieth volume of Work Study. We've been around for quite some time. Of course, I haven't been editing it for all those years; nor have we stayed the same.
We've changed format, size and design over the years, but more importantly the content has evolved to reflect the concerns of industry and commerce, and the available set of topics, tools and techniques "out there" related to productivity. There's been another shift as well. We've gradually moved to a situation where we (hopefully) balance theory with practice, experiment with case study, and current with future.
Hopefully, by reading Work Study, you receive news with reflection, new techniques and approaches set in the context of lessons learned from past practice. This evolution of approach and content has led us to declare Work Study as a journal of productivity science.
This might seem either irrelevant or arrogant, but we feel it is important to help potential contributors and readers to understand the kind of journal we are striving to be.
The rationale is that "science" moves forward by experimenting and analysing, and by reflecting and extrapolating. We aim, in our modest way, to make a contribution to the forward understanding and development of productivity, its measurement and its growth. We aim to do this by encouraging papers that do experiment and analyse, and that do reflect and extrapolate. Of course, we shall back this up with our continuing commitment to news and views, to add the "Monday morning" content. (The phrase stems from an old contact who, when in a meeting that addressed policy, strategy, long-range views and the like, used to say, "But what do I do on Monday morning?")
So, we hope you continue to find Work Study both informative and entertaining; we hope though, that additionally, we are making, on your behalf, our contribution to the development of "the productivity movement". This means that, with your continuing support, productivity and Work Study have a bright future.
Hope you're around for volume 60!