Industrial Management: Volume 73 Issue 3
Table of contents
Kid‐glove codes
Without wanting to appear flippant, the recent moves to draw up codes of corporate and individual conduct in industry remind one of New Year resolutions. They begin with the best…
Company briefing
In the first of a series of articles dealing with new legislation and its effect on industry, Ewan Mitchell analyses the Government's Counter Inflation measures. Apart from being…
HUNT THE NIMBLE
MAURICE BARNFATHERThe takeover moves by TACE—the printing‐to‐crane safety engineering group — represent a comeback for a one‐time City star, Jock Mackenzie. But the man largely responsible for…
FRAUD VAT poses new threat
Fraud is the fastest growth industry in the UK, according to one security consultant — and there are fears that YAT will aggravate the menace. Catching the swindlers is no easy…
Oil on ruffled feathers
Industry's euphoria over North Sea oil is not shared by the conservationists, who fear damage to wildlife and the coastline of NE Scotland. And many of the Shetland islanders view…
ORDERS AWEIGH
The threat of large‐scale redundancy in Britain's shipyards this summer has been averted by a spate of multi‐million pound orders. But this unexpected boost provides the industry…
Split thinking at Charterhouse
Experience at Harvard Business School taught Paul Rudder that the best way to run a group as diverse as Charterhouse Industries was to give top management a dual role. Chairmen of…
Joint progress
Michael WrightBehind that old joke about making fire by rubbing two boy scouts together lies a fundamental fact that man has used ever since the Stone Age: Friction produces heat. Rub virtually…
Four days shalt thou labour…
With flexible working hours gaining acceptance among British companies, Keith Mayes takes a look at working habits in the US. There, the trend is towards a four‐day week, which…
Carr to issue pickets with ‘little red book’
Paul NovakTHE GOVERNMENT IS planning to issue a ‘little red book’ to the trade union stalwarts who man the picket lines in Britain's often bitter industrial disputes, telling them what they…