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Are imports to blame?
FRED CATHERWOODThe continuing high level of imports since devaluation has worried a lot of people. Imports were higher in the first eight months of this year than the Chancellor's budget…
The managementality gap
ROBERT MUELLER'Now is the time to debride some of our outdated management policies and get on with a modern approach to the business challenge. To do this in business—as in all organic…
Measuring morale and motivation
T.G.P. ROGERSSENSITIVITY to the attitudes and reactions of his employees is a fundamental attribute of any good manager. But how can the chairman of a large company obtain objective data to…
Utilizing human resources effectively
ROBERT E. TANNEHILL“Since the general introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more…
Corporate planning and organizational development
CHARLES MARGERISONTHE central characteristic of all businesses is that they are organized: only some are better organized than others. This in itself is hardly a finding of originality, but bears…
The forecasting system and techniques
COLIN ROBINSONFORECASTING is not just a specialized management technique, but something which we all understand and do quite naturally. Because of the existence of time, all of us run our lives…
Marketing for Christmas: an opportunity awaits
GORDON E. WHEELERSo far as the writer knows the product described in this case has yet to reach the national market—if it has done so, it certainly has not captured the imagination of the masses…
Computer simulation speeds decision taking
JOHN SMITHMany companies have already accepted such techniques as network analysis and automatic trend projection by exponential smoothing and are confidently using them on a routine basis…
Computer aid in the design office
F.G. HEATHDesign is the seed of marketing success. Companies in which the introduction of new products depends upon the ability of the designer will realize that the increasing pace of…
Computers in the City
MICHAEL G. HALLCOMPUTERS have now become fairly common pieces of equipment in the offices of the larger city stockbrokers and indeed a few brokers are in the throes of installing their…
Choosing an export agent
COLIN MCMILLAN, SIDNEY PAULDENOVER half the world's trade is done through agents. Unless a company is an international giant, the development of an export agency network is probably the only effective way of…
Evaluating research
J.R. LAWRENCETHE problem of evaluating research in a university is likely to be more difficult than in an industrial company. Bearing in mind the problems at a national level of allocating…
Management Training: at Manchester
JOHN F. MORRISAT Manchester Business School the management course lasts for 12 weeks: most people on it work for at least 12 hours a day, and carry on through alternate week‐ends. We are…
TAXATION and FINANCE
DESMOND GOCHGEC/AEI—THE AFTERMATH At the peak of the GEC/AEI takeover struggle (November 1967) the former directors of AEI sought to strengthen their case for continued independence by making…
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- Brandon Randolph-Seng (Editor-in-Chief)