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The purpose of this paper is to report on research carried out with employers to determine demand for business and management skills in the Scottish workforce.

The research used a questionnaire in which employers were interviewed (either telephone or face to face), completed themselves and returned by e-mail, or completed an online survey. In total, 71 employers took part in the study.

The research found that the factors which are most important to employers when recruiting graduates were; personal attitude, employability skills, relevant work experience and degree result. The most important transferable skills to employers when recruiting graduates were; trustworthiness, reliability, motivation, communication skills and a willingness to learn.

The paper shows the importance of graduates developing excellent job searching skills, high-quality work experience and developing business courses to enhance students’ employability and better meet employers’ wants.

The paper is timely given the introduction of Key Information Sets. The provision of such information will drive HEI to further develop students’ employability to obtain graduate-level jobs.

In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.

An efficient approach to factory and office maintenance and cleaning prolongs the working life of equipment — thus helping to keep down capital overheads — and improves staff morale. And if that's not a big enough incentive, there's always the health and safety law lurking in the background. Report by Alec Snobel.

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The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains features to help the reader to retrieve relevant literature from MCB University Press' considerable output. Each entry within has been indexed according to author(s) and the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus. The latter thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid retrieval. Each article or book is assigned its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. This Volume indexes 29 journals indicating the depth, coverage and expansion of MCB's portfolio.

Since the first Volume of this Bibliography there has been an explosion of literature in all the main areas of business. The researcher and librarian have to be able to uncover specific articles devoted to certain topics. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume III, in addition to the annotated list of articles as the two previous volumes, contains further features to help the reader. Each entry within has been indexed according to the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus and thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid information retrieval. Each article has its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. The first Volume of the Bibliography covered seven journals published by MCB University Press. This Volume now indexes 25 journals, indicating the greater depth, coverage and expansion of the subject areas concerned.

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 of television piped into one's home. Nicholas Mellersh of Rediffusion Ltd set things going by outlining what he saw to be the form of cable tv during an experimental period when six stations, provisionally licensed, would be able to channel a wide choice of networks direct into homes. First start was likely to be at Greenwich, where advanced planning was well under way. The immediate sensational difference would be the budget on which such stations worked — perhaps £20,000 to £30,000 for capital equipment (a studio, two VTR units, two studio cameras, a simple telecine system and two outside‐broadcast VTR units); and some £15,000 to £20,000 annual running costs. This implied a staff of about six — ludicrous by comparison with conventional tv set‐ups.