Industrial Management: Volume 80 Issue 8
Table of contents
THE POWER GAME GROWN MEN PLAY
A CRESCENDO of voices has been focusing attention on the falling income of British executives relative to the factory floor employee. A dire loss of incentive to effort is…
PRODUCTS
PANASONIC Business Equipment is introducing a new mini‐CCTV surveillance system. It consists of a compact 9‐inch black‐and‐white monitor and up to three high‐sensitivity…
INCENTIVES FOR LEASING
BY 1985 half the cars in Britain will be leased as companies throughout the country step up the general move to leasing. Such has been the thumbs‐up approval given to leasing that…
SERVICES HIGH RELIABILITY FOR ELECTRIC MOTORS
NEWMAN Electric Motors, the Bristol‐based manufacturer of industrial AC induction motors up to 300 kW, is stepping up its campaign among motor users whose equipment is destined…
HOW TO CHECK IF YOUR CANTEEN IS IN A STEW
INDUSTRIAL catering is big business today with an annual turnover estimated at over £600 million per annum, of which half is paid in subsidies by employers. Because catering…
THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY
Freightliner, the world's biggest overland container carrier, offers a high speed and high capacity door‐to‐door service without equal. It has a massive network of 40 terminals…
SPY STORY
Peter Heims‘You may well argue that industrial espionage is not a threat to your particular company. If these are your thoughts, you are living with a false sense of security.’
THE THINKING MAN'S RETREAT: Alec Snobel delves into the past to introduce a regular series on conference centres
IT would wrong both universities to define Oxford as the alma mater of scholars and Cambridge as that of sporting types, but that generalisation is certainly as valid as any broad…
Let's not be so unbending on flexible working hours
Graham Reinelt“I JUST cannot get up in the morning and always end up rushing to work. This morning I missed the train again and got in late”.
Institute of Factory Management
THE INSTITUTE has been informed of a new standard for better conditions of work for the world's 500 million older workers which was adopted by the 66th session of the…
FULLTEXT PROCESSOR FROM POSSUM
POSSUM Controls Ltd announce a full text processing facility which can either be supplied as a complete unit or an add‐on facility to most existing GCTW12 and GCTW8 typewriter…
BOOKS
Colin SpicerMAKING EXPERIENCE PAY. by Alan Mumford (McGraw‐Hill, £7.95) EVERYBODY learns from experience in some way, but how many managers find that learning from experience is a slow…