Industrial Management: Volume 73 Issue 6
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Worker directors: the penalty for deadlock
The idea of shopfloor participation in management decision‐making ceases to be one of those topics which arouses vague talk but little positive action. With the Prime Minister…
BALLOT BOXING
Company mergers, accountancy practices and worker participation in management decisions are just some of the issues due for radical change under EEC company law reforms. But…
When ‘ramps’ hoist those all‐paper bids
Maurice BarnfatherShareholders in a company which is about to be taken over should be wary of an ‘all‐paper’ bid, where there is no cash alternative. For there is evidence to suggest that the…
Haulage costs could rocket under transport tax proposals
Paul NovakPROPOSALS WHICH COULD have a devastating effect on the transport plans and costs of British industry are now being studied by the Environment Secretary.
When the dancing had to stop
PLANNERS INVOLVED WITH Milton Keynes—Britain's space‐age city being built on 22,000 acres of north Buckinghamshire—have become embroiled in a classic ‘chicken and egg’ dilemma…
King with a common touch
Farmer, huntsman and one‐time business entrepreneur, John King would seem to typify the capitalist figure. But behind his current chairmanship of Babcock and Wilcox—the £126m…
After the game was over…
Sunderland's FA cup victory was more than a soccer triumph. It represented a badly‐needed morale booster for local commerce and industry in a town which—like its second division…
MONEY DOWN THE POWER GRID
Industry is paying well over the odds for its energy supplies, claim Britain's flourishing band of fuel cost ‘watchdogs’. Tariff rates are by no means as fixed as many companies…
‘Only a management genius could create a water shortage in Britain’
At a time when this country is faced with yet another water shortage—and industrialists are being urged to give this taken‐for‐granted commodity higher priority in expansion…
Spinelli wrestles with jobs versus profits in shipbuilding dilemma
Colin O'DwyerA RADICAL NEW look at the European shipbuilding industry is being greatly influenced by the recently‐published Booz‐Allen Report.
‘Air puff’ automation
Michael Wright‘Fluidics has become a bit of a dirty word among a lot of engineers; I try to avoid using it.’ The words don't sound like those of an engineer confident in his chosen field, but…
THE COST OF EQUALITY
With equal pay likely to be a leading issue at the next General Election, Keith Mayes reports on the penalties for job discrimination in the US.