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The purpose of this paper is to examine how the concept of vicarious liability has developed in recent years.

This work analyses case law decisions pertaining to vicarious liability.

The paper examines how court decisions have acted to widen considerably the application of vicarious liability in a business context.

Further research could usefully speculate on the direction the law might take in the future.

The paper reveals how vicarious liability applies in a business context and provides some pertinent learning outcomes for employers from case law development.

The analysis presented in this paper explains how an important legal concept applies in a contemporary business context.

The purpose of this paper is to present research conducted with legal cases of sexual harassment (SH) in Great Britain over the past ten years. The paper contributes to the equal opportunities literature since it offers a rare interpretation of longitudinal case data with important implications for law, policy, social science and, indeed, for the management of equal opportunities within organizations. The paper approaches SH both as an evolving legal issue and as a type of organizational conflict, with particular power influences and effects.

The population of individual case records with a SH component was accessed via the BALII database for the period 1995‐2005. These case records were content‐analyzed using a framework of variables developed for the study. Variables of interest initially were identified from a review of the social science, law and policy‐related literatures

The vast majority (96 per cent) of workers bringing appeals of SH were female. The data suggest that claimants were more likely to be single than married. In many ways, the profile of respondents appears a mirror image of claimants. This is true in terms of gender (92 per cent are men) and also in terms of organizational power; the large majority of individuals named as respondents in SH cases are managers or professional employees. It is evident from the analysis that there is low reporting and high attrition rates of cases relating to claims of SH.

Given this paper examines appellate cases, it is important that the findings are set in context. The appellate cases tend to deal with questions of law, which may make these cases particularly unique from the run of the mill harassment cases. Whilst dealing with important legal issues it should be acknowledged that appellate cases are not necessarily representative of SH litigation in general.

The paper contributes to the equal opportunities literature since it offers a rare interpretation of longitudinal case data with important implications for law, policy, social science and, indeed, for the management of equal opportunities within organizations.

The paper concludes that management of risk relating to SH could be improved via knowledge of the litigation record. This means looking not just at cases that make law, but at the wider body of claims tested by tribunals. Analysis of these could open a window on SH in workplaces – illuminating how it operates, how individuals and organisations react to its experience and how employment tribunals assess claims overall.

Industrial expansion is the first priority in the most northerly part of Britain. Alexander Aurens and photographer John Benton‐Harris visited this beautiful 14,000 square miles, intent on putting itself on the industrial map and providing greater work incentives without ruining its natural heritage.

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.

The British Food Journal has had a long and distinguished career as an information source both for those involved in regulation and those who produce within the food industry. Indeed, in 1988 the journal enters its 90th year of this service. A review of its past also provides a review of key trends and evolutions in food manufacture and control. The article highlights key issues and developments from 1899 to 1988.

Focuses on the environmental movement and its approach to provision of information. Comments on guides to environmental organisations and the movement generally. Concludes that the environmental movement cannot be considered in isolation but must be studied alongside the issues and politics out of which it has arisen.