Industrial Management: Volume 75 Issue 3
Table of contents
CAN YOU PASS THE PROFIT TEST?
VIRTUALLY every industrialist would impugn that politically engendered attitude of mind which condemns profit as a dirty word rather than welcomes it as a measure of a job well…
Travelling By Tube
One of the world's most modern steelworks has found the answer to its communications problems in an old system
Keeping credit under control
T.R.Hulme describes how your liquidity can be dramatically improved by the employment of a professional debt service
CAN YOU ALWAYS AFFORD TO SAVE FUEL?
ENERGY conservation means the better and more efficient use of energy with proper regard to the related costs and benefits. It makes no sense to save energy with…
When Insurance is the best policy
THE MAIN principle of the Social Security Pensions Bill, just published, is that the State pension will consist of two parts, a basic component which will represent pension on a …
conference confidential
THE CONFERENCE business has been around a long time; according to Homer, the first significant meeting was of the Gods on Mount Olympus. The only item on the agenda was what to do…
NOTHING VENTURED NOTHING GAINED
AGAINST a background of rising costs and inelastic prices, with the ominous threat of world recession adding further menace to a frightening rate of inflation, businessmen in…
IS THERE A JOURNAL IN THE HOUSE?
WILLIAM LEVER, later to become the first Lord Leverhulme, said it all 80 years ago.
Mini Computers Maxi Success
P.R.Webb, of the Cranfield School of Management, describes three case histories of the successful application of small computer systems
£50 MILLION: THE PRICE OF GETTING YOUR MAN
THERE is a general rule‐of‐thumb in the personnel business that you should use direct recruitment to fill posts with salaries up to £5,000 p.a.; that you should employ a selection…
The great dictators
Alan Frost describes how an integrated dictation system can cut the soaring costs of business correspondence