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In November 1986 the NHS Management Board announced the piloting, at six acute hospitals, of a new approach to resource management whose focus is on achieving, and demonstrating, measurable improvements in patient care through better use of all the hospital's resources. (A parallel development, not considered in this paper, is the extension of resource managment for community health services.) The full involvement of doctors and nurses in the hospitals is fundamental to the new approach and at national level the initiative is sponsored jointly by the Management Board and the Joint Consultants Committee (JCC). The term ‘resource management’ replaces ‘management budgeting’ which was applied, originally, to the project launched in four hospitals in 1983. But the change is much more than one of name.

Investigates, using survey results compiled by Humberside Local Education Authority (LEA), the perceptions and future intentions of headteachers regarding the purchase of education services. Presents the results in quantitative and qualitative formats. Indicates that headteachers have an expectation that the LEA will respond to the findings of the questionnaire.

This register of current research in social economics has been compiled by the International Institute of Social Economics. The register does not claim to be comprehensive but is merely an aid for research workers and institutions interested in social economics. The register will be updated and made more comprehensive in the future but this is largely dependent on the inflow of information from researchers in social economics. In order to facilitate this process a standardised form is to be found on the last page of this register. Completed forms, with attached sheets as necessary, should be returned to the compiler: Dr Barrie O. Pettman, Director, International Institute of Social Economics, Enholmes Hall, Patrington, Hull, N. Humberside, England, HU12 OPR. Any other comments on the register will also be welcome.

While Ministers of the UK Government are mounting a wide‐ranging review of the country's National Health Service and attention is increasingly focussing on ways of stretching resources to treat more patients, more effectively, managers and clinicians are demanding more effective ways of looking at the performance of hospitals, clinics and health authorities to identify shortcomings.

A University Management Consultancy is applying an entirely new approach to helping the Engineering Division of British Airways

Humberside College of Higher Education is comparable to a polytechnic in its size and range of courses, and is the largest of the six major higher education colleges in England and Wales; the college also has the largest Library/Learning Resources operation. It has four main sites, three in Hull and one across the Humber at Grimsby. There are, at present, seven libraries and a central Bibliographical Services Unit. The library has a union COM catalogue produced monthly via the BLAISE/LOCAS system, which has been received since October 1981. Retrospective cataloguing is still underway to convert each site's card catalogue into machine‐readable format. Currently there are 60,000 monograph titles (representing 150,000 copies) covered by the union COM catalogue. Since 1981 in‐house computing facilities have been used to produce a subject index, and for the periodical control system. The latest aspect of the library service to undergo automation has been the book order system, in April 1985.

On 22 October 1988 the lager louts of Reading stayed nervously indoors. The CLW “class of ‘68” was in town.

Presents over sixty abstracts summarising the 1999 Employment Research Unit annual conference held at the University of Cardiff. Explores the multiple impacts of globalization on work and employment in contemporary organizations. Covers the human resource management implications of organizational responses to globalization. Examines the theoretical, methodological, empirical and comparative issues pertaining to competitiveness and the management of human resources, the impact of organisational strategies and international production on the workplace, the organization of labour markets, human resource development, cultural change in organisations, trade union responses, and trans‐national corporations. Cites many case studies showing how globalization has brought a lot of opportunities together with much change both to the employee and the employer. Considers the threats to existing cultures, structures and systems.

It has often been said that a great part of the strength of Aslib lies in the fact that it brings together those whose experience has been gained in many widely differing fields but who have a common interest in the means by which information may be collected and disseminated to the greatest advantage. Lists of its members have, therefore, a more than ordinary value since they present, in miniature, a cross‐section of institutions and individuals who share this special interest.

Given an increasingly volatile and competitive fashion environment, the purpose of this paper is to qualitatively explore current consumer behaviour and psychological perspectives of luxury in women's undergarment fashion purchasing, with specific examination of whether this under‐investigated area of discrete or inconspicuous fashion appraisal is consistent with other luxury purchases.

The study employs an interesting methodological approach using multiple qualitative techniques including research interviews, group forums, and narrative capture, to investigate women's undergarment purchasing in a changing fashion environment in relation to the issues of branding, self‐image, perceived self‐image, motivational perspectives, and consumer behaviour, as identified by 119 female consumers aged between 18 and 60.

This study supports in part previous research that indicated consumer behaviour is determined by the congruency between the consumer's self‐image and the consumer's image of brands, although early research suggested this only applied to conspicuous products and social consumption. The current study confirms the self‐image link in the area of inconspicuous fashion, and strongly relates inconspicuous products consumed privately to self‐esteem and perceived sexy self.

The findings indicate that for intimate apparel marketing to be effective and credible, the marketed fashion items, and actions taken by designers, and retailers need to be consistent with the consumer's personal style, value perceptions, and self‐image.

This research examines several neglected areas in fashion and consumption research, and contributes to our understanding of key motivational elements important in the consumption of inconspicuous fashion, and the relationship of self‐image to inconspicuous consumption.