Industrial Management: Volume 70 Issue 1
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Industrial Management
NINETEEN‐SEVENTY‐ONE is going to be a pretty tough year and the new Government will encounter plenty of hurdles seemingly designed to prevent it getting into full stride. Legacies…
BATTY the multi‐nationalist
ONE OF THE BLESSINGS—or more often one of the burdens—of the current era of mass‐media communications is the ease with which trendy, super‐descriptive phrases and labels are…
Electronics to break the £1000 million barrier
After the United States, Japan and West Germany, Britain has the largest electronics industry. Gross output topped £1000 million in 1968 for the first time and reached £1154…
The Chubb Group—a safe combination
In common with most industrial shares, those of Chubb & Sons are currently below their highest ever level, and are about 6s. below the highest for this year at around 22s. At this…
Blow hot, blow cold
James BurkeThe refrigeration industry in this country has been having a rough time for the past ten years, and “only now”, it is hoped, is it “poised on the edge of a great leap forward into…
Sabotage or lockout
Lesley Bernstein investigates the Pilkington dispute and finds a disturbing situation, boding ill for the future. Eric Wigham, Labour correspondent of The Times for 23 years…
PLANEMAKERS FIGHT TO HOLD WORLD MARKETS
Arthur ReedEXECUTIVES of the British aerospace industry left the Farnborough air show happier than when they arrived. During the period of this biennial display of their wares some…
Plymouth
John Lawless, Richard BrooksThe next ten years will see Plymouth, devastated by bombing, finally rebuilt Vastly improved communications will open it up to industries that could not have considered the city…
The house that Marley built
Kenneth Gooding of the Financial Times looks at the company which started with roofing tiles and today supplies the complete house.
Short‐course jungle
Industry is overwhelmed by a glut of management courses and seminars. David Saunders investigates this expensive form of training.
BRITISH INDUSTRY JOINS THE GAUGHO
This month British industry returns to Argentina at B.A.70. Hugh Grey and Richard Brooks view the prospects.
Unions press for pollution control
Ian Mandle, John LawlessTHE TRADES UNION CONGRESS is pressing the government to set up a central body to investigate and advise on the whole question of environment in Britain today. If implemented, the…
JET LAG
The world‐hopping executive is his own ‘worst enemy’. Dunlop's travel manager, Ken Runnicles, right, tells Simon Peterson how image‐conscious or too‐busy travellers fail to…
Eric Wigham gives the only answer
“EMPLOYERS IN ALL SECTORS should stand firm against unreasonable demands and should reach pay settlements which are fair but a marked and significant downward step from the recent…
Threat to Britain's ‘hidden’ trade
Keith MayesEach month, Britain can breathe either a sigh of relief or one of added satisfaction as its “invisible” exports take the balance of payments position not‐so‐badly into the red or…
The ‘employed drop‐out’
Keith BelcherDorset folds itself away like the green silk lining of a cloak. Just a tea‐break county on the road to Devon and Cornwall, it hides away from the main roads in case a stray…
Triumph meets the European challenge
In a chequered world market, the British motor industry plays its incessant game of chess. Strength at home has to be steadied whilst at the same time the industry tries to…
The car itself — Triumph
Eric FordhamIn the recently introduced Triumph 1500 the Triumph Motor Co. have followed their policy of providing a carefully matched combination of lively performance, high quality finish…
A stepping stone to the unknown
Don RyderPeter Drucker has contributed so much to our thinking on management techniques and as a practising manager I have always been indebted to him for not being a “lost academic” but…