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Draws on the sudden collapse of two listed buildings in Westminster, London in 1990, to conclude that old buildings, built on a cellular basis, are at risk of instability from any change. Lists seven general precautions developers should take when dealing with historic, cellular‐constructed buildings.

Reports on an attempt to launch an unprecedented management buyout, which was seen to have important repercussions for the whole of the £12 billion British buyout industry, and to represent a “test case” regarding the viability and suitability of American‐style leverage deals in Britain. Describes the problems that arose as Magnet plc′s debt increased and its ability to service its interest obligations was undermined.

The purpose of this paper is to offer pointers to local government executives on the qualities of leadership that drive social innovation (SI) as well as locate the roles of leadership and participation in the output and outcome of SI. Further, the findings of the study can hopefully contribute to the discourse on leadership for a sustainable future.

The purpose of the study was to highlight the forms of participation among the actors in the different stages of SI, the qualities of the leaders that drove SI and the roles of leadership and participation in the output and outcome of SI. To answer the research questions, the researcher applied the case study research design and employed the grounded theory approach for data analysis and interpretation.

The cases showed leadership that encourages, as leadership qualities of the governors. These were manifested in terms of being empowering, giving the freehand, being goal-oriented, resource mobilizer, consultative and practicing both bottom-up and top-bottom approaches to make sure that the outputs are achieved, as well as having the qualities of a supportive leader. The cases showed all three employed forms of participation, as categorized by Lowndes et al. (2001). Government can indeed foster innovation when there is close involvement and participation of the workforce in innovation. Leadership and participation play a big role in achieving output and outcome of SI.

The study is a review of the unpublished dissertation by Gallardo (2014) at the National College of Public Administration and Governance, University of the Philippines.

A woman whose husband died suddenly applied to his firm's pension fund trustees for cash benefit. After considerable delay, back came a long letter which was so financially complicated that the widow couldn't make sense of it—even though she had an economics degree.

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 purpose of this chapter is to illustrate the centrality of the tabula rasa concept of self for the medical model of homeless service provision. Using four years of ethnographic data analyzed with a grounded fractal methodology, we illustrate the logical interconnections between the particular phenomena of homeless service institutions and broad cultural contexts. While social science has been somewhat critical of the medicalization of homelessness, its shared supposition about the self has relegated it to structural critiques that offer little to the currently homeless and those who want to help them. In contrast, we illuminate a path toward the development of an alternative pedagogy of individualism that is more directly responsive to the problematics of the medical model of homeless service provision.

The Personnel and Training Management Yearbook and Director appears in its seventh edition from its consultant editorial board of Michael Armstrong, Terry Ball and Terry Page — a formidable team combining business, personnel, and journalistic interests and experience.

Concentrates solely on custom building, as this is the area of major growth in the life assurance business. Demonstrates how the well‐known techniques of product concept testing can be applied in a service industry when mass marketing is contemplated. Delves into a study conducted in spring 1967 in Bradford, UK, involving 40 households, where the head was between 18 and 25 years of age. Reports on the questionnaire survey that covered a range of disbursement analyses, other than those specifically concerned with life assurance proposals. Concludes that the general conclusion is that the market segmentation implicit in straight life assurance and endowment assurance is meaningful, and that the conversion policy is the most effective way of straddling the two segments, to ensure brand loyalty once contact has been converted into first business.