Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 4 Issue 7

OPERATION VULCAN: 5 thirty years of development and still going strong

JOHN WELLENS

In this article and the next I propose to trace the historical development of the study of training in physical skills over the past thirty years. My purpose is to make the point…

Management training and the smaller company: SWOT analysis

NH STAIT

Success in business depends generally on: ★ the commercial or entrepreneurial acumen of the man at the top; ★ a good product that people want; ★ an ability to choose, stretch and…

PERFORMANCE: Its causes and mechanics

WA GOODE

Our personal behaviour reconciles and balances the various pressures and motivations to action which we experience. These arise within ourselves from our personal characteristics…

Mbo: Management & commercial objectives

VALERIE STEWART, ANDREW STEWART

Our two previous articles highlighted some of the problems and difficulties that can be expected with the typical MbO programme. We offered some hints about overcoming some of…

The changing rôle of the Diploma in Management Studies

GEORGE HAYWARD

Considerable attention has been focused recently on the business schools in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and to a lesser extent in Europe. It is strange that…

How managers learn

EUNICE BELBIN, MICHAEL TOYE

Anything done by people gives rise to individual variation in its performance. For instance, rock climbing must reflect the important variations possible between all sets of arms…

Pipe dreams

Alec M Hughes

A witty remark over coffee suggested the title. It was made following a symposium on the Wednesday afternoon on the theme YOU AND CABLE TV, when discussion centred round the theme…

The law discovers the manager: Who is a manager in the eyes of the Law?

ALISON BROADHURST

The question will probably be more important in the future than in the past; for one thing, statutes as unlike as the Trade Descriptions Act and the Factories Act place a…