Industrial Management: Volume 78 Issue 9
Table of contents
In Brief
Analysing the Government White Paper on the five per cent pay policy management consultants Binder Hamlyn Fry identify nine implications. In the latest of the series of executive…
Constructing a future for builders
James MillenQuite a few of those who followed the traditional advice to ‘sell in May and go away’ this year will have had occasion to question the wisdom of long‐standig aphorisms as, in late…
Institute's AGM
The first Annual General Meeting of the Institute of Factory Management was held at the Buckingham Room, Charing Cross Hotel, London, on Thursday, 17th August. All Members were…
Leasing to outlive capital life
With the plea that industry does not generate enough net profit to reinvest has come a marked growth in leasing. Here we examine the background and advantages of this type of…
On‐course learning is still a good bet
Good managers are born, not made, goes the belief. But competent management is as much a science as an art, and it's within the formal, disciplined framework of a training course…
Defining the training goals
There is still a tendency for firms to embark on a training programme with no clear idea of the criteria to be used in cases where performance cannot be judged by exams. John…
South Korea looks west
South Korea's burgeoning economy has brought big demands for capital equipment. It's an opportunity not to be missed by British exporters offering high technology products for, as…
When words really count
Every letter which begins ‘Thank you for your inquiry of …’ is a waste of the typist's time — and that means her employer's money. With dictation and typing accounting for…