Industrial Management: Volume 74 Issue 11
Table of contents
Denis the menace, our rusty Iron Chancellor…
THE CHANCELLOR'S budget would have brought delight to that joyless protagonist of austerity, Sir Stafford Cripps, who darkened the gloom of life in Britain during Labour's first…
Higher productivity
BOTH SIDES of industry are agreed that higher productivity is the only viable formula for higher wages and for essential profits and dividends for economic survival. A…
WHAT THEY TAUGHT ME AT BUSINESS SCHOOL
An executive who attended a post‐experience programme at the London Graduate School of Business Studies (right) assesses the contents of the curriculum and describes its dramatic…
THE WATCHDOGS WHO KEEP ON HOUNDING ADVERTISING
The voluntary policing of advertisements by the industry's own watchdogs, the Advertising Standards Authority, has come under heavy fire from Shirley Williams, Secretary for…
WHY BRITISH INDUSTRY IS BLEEDING TO DEATH
EVERYONE SHOULD recognise that British industry now faces the most acute liquidity and profitability crisis since the war.
Of course we must stay in the Market
NEGOTIATION IN the context of Europe is essentially a matter of trying to re‐shape the EEC rules initially formulated for the benefit of the Six so as to take into account, as far…
Don't be afraid of the big bad box
It is high time industrialists came to terms with the television cameras and the microphone, and grasped the positive opportunities they present. Bertram Mycock, for some twenty…
Ten per cent more for directors
THE AVERAGE UK managerial salary is now £5,563 compared with £4,996 last year and £3,906 four years ago. Salaries of executives in the UK rose by about 12 per cent between July…
SOURCES OF FINANCE
AN OPTIMISTIC view of the economy was taken by Sir Arthur Cockfield, chairman of the Price Commission, when he confirmed a report that the rate of inflationary pressures was…
A PLACE IN THE COUNTRY
Jason Fry re‐locates himself in Swindon to report on how a railway town steamed into prosperity by investing in every possible amenity and service to attract new industry and…
I'M DREAMING OF AN AZURE CHRISTMAS AND A GOLDEN TAN
All at sea with David Wragg for a winter holiday away from the cold and damp