Management Research News: Volume 5 Issue 1

The Determinants of Effective Health and Safety Committees

P.B. Beaumont, J.R. Coyle, J.W. Leopold

The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Regulations which followed it gave trade union safety representatives the right to request management to establish a joint health…

Comparative Study of Home Buying Behaviour of Atlantic Canadians

Erdener Kaynak, Lois Stevenson

The purpose of this study is to examine the salient selection criteria and purchase behaviour of Atlantic Canadians when buying a single‐detached house. It considers features of…

Working with information technology

David A. Buchanan, David Boddy

There has been a lot of speculation about the impact of new information technologies on organisations and their members. But there have been comparatively few empirical studies in…

Alternative Work Patterns: Do Organisations Really Measure Their Worth?

Ben Burdetsky, Marvin S. Katzman

This article was written as a result of a study of alternative Work Pattern (AWP) applications in the United States. The study was designed to ascertain how Flexitime or other…

The Exigence to Evaluate Policy Decisions

David Andrews

PADIS‐ODE, described in MRN Vol. 3, Nos. 1 and 3, 1980, was developed to allow each separate aspect of any policy decision to be properly worked out in professional studies, and…