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The purpose of this paper is to extend awareness that workplace bullying impacts on the health of individuals both within and outside the workplace and that there are implications for workplace health management.

The paper contextualises the problem of workplace bullying and workplace health management and introduces the five articles in the special issue.

Workplace health management is becoming more prominent in some organizations and workplace health management, and a corporate culture based on partnership, trust and respect, offers considerable potential to move the agenda forward. Moreover, there appears to be a paucity of knowledge available as to how workplace health management strategies and programmes impact on organizational culture and assembling and sharing such a knowledge base could be a useful step.

Further research is required to extend the studies presented and to address workplace bullying from the perspective of workplace health management.

Research is required to explore the extent to which the potential of workplace health management programmes to impact positively on corporate approaches to bullying and harassment has been realised and how those programmes have influenced corporate culture.

A partnership approach to knowledge creation and sharing has the most potential for successful outcomes and accords closely with the inferred ideals of the Luxembourg Declaration for Workplace Health promotion.

The paper addresses a perceived gap in the literature linking workplace bullying to the impact on individual health and the implications for workplace health management.

NO ONE WOULD BE SURPRISED by the assertion that John Bunyan made a deep impression among the devout Welsh for a century or more after his unique career. The standard evidence for such a statement is of course the number of editions of the author, and for Bunyan a special compilation of all his works printed in Wales alone between 1677 and 1931 shows the impressive total of 188 titles (no fewer than 58 of Pilgrim's Progress) in various languages. For a land with only a little over a half million inhabitants and with only two cities with over five thousand population in 1800, this is a record hard to equal, demonstrating an extraordinary devotion to a single author. Yet beyond such eloquent numerical summary another particular witness emerges from an unsuspected quarter. In the 1767 Welsh translation of The Doctrine of the Law and Grace Unfolded is dutifully included the ‘Names of the Subscribers’ underwriting the publication. This particular list is so unusual as to merit perpetuation in its entirety:

Reports on the changes in bus and coach services in the United Kingdom, owing to the Transport Act of 1986, which brought about deregulation. Examines several cases across the country, including Great Yarmouth, London and Plymouth. Suggests that management has proven that it can compete, maintain investment and return adequate profits in an open market.

Recent statistics on the condition of Britain's housing stock show a marked decline in housing conditions over the last two decades, despite an increase in home‐ownership from 29.5 per cent to 55.4 per cent since 1950. The English House Condition Survey and its equivalent for Greater London paint a depressing picture of the problem.

The UK’s North Sea offshore industry has had a traumatic five years from cycles of reduced demand and volatile oil prices to serious accidents on platforms and helicopter flights. The introduction of BS safety standards will inevitably help in raising quality criteria throughout the industry.

The construction industry may not be fully prepared for growth because of the lack of training in recent years. Reports on the CITB′s “Investors in People” (IIP) campaign which emphasizes the importance of recognizing people as a resource to be developed. Reports on the steps being taken by Shepherd Construction to prepare for an upturn in the industry.

This note comes from the Building Conservation Trust and is based on a statement issued by the Trust's Technical Committee. The Trust operates the permanent exhibition which is open daily at Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey KT8 9BS.

Looks at the changes which have happened to the Post Office, and in particular with regard to the three main parts‐the Royal Mail, Parcelforce and Post Office Counters. Discusses the resultant changes as a kind of cultural revolution with a change in working practices. Although change is ongoing with the threat perhaps of privatization in the air, the Post Office needs to be ultra‐competitive for its own survival.

In this paper, the management of variety in automobile manufacturing is broadened from simply considering the choice of models, options and parts to include strategic issues in sourcing and logistics systems. Some of the major cost elements associated with varietal increase are identified, leading into a discussion of how logistics system redesign can reduce or, indeed, eliminate the unwanted impacts of varietal increase. In this context, a “Rule of Three” is developed to assist in the effective management of variety in automotive logistics and elsewhere.