Industrial Management: Volume 77 Issue 11
Table of contents
Closed minds at Ivory Towers
CIVIL servants, so they keep reminding us, are not a bunch of insular, aloof elitists out of touch with the needs of everyone else.
In Brief
Hopeful note on pay policy It is possible that the transition from incomes restraint may be smoother in 1977–78 than on the many previous occasions, according to management…
Institute of Factory Management
If this journal, which is of course The Institute's official mouthpiece, appears to have put strong emphasis on the subject of Energy Conservation this year, our Editor remains…
YES AND NO TO REFERENDA
In the wake of Margaret Thatcher's remarks about a referendum to settle a union‐Government confrontation, author and business consultant, Stanley Alderson, examines the…
SEEING THE LIGHT
Firms thinking of designing their own lighting system need to look beyond laid down standards. For it's only by catering individually to the diverse lighting demands within the…
Lighting Treatment for sewage
Fluorescent luminaries from the Crompton Combat corrosion‐resistant range together with standard fluorescent luminaires from the Crompack range have been supplied by Crompton…
£11,000 cut for carpet workers
By changing from fluorescent tubes to Thorn Lighting's Hi‐Pak luminaires with Kolorarc mercury halide lamps, Templeton Grays Carpets Limited are confident of reducing their annual…
Exhibiting for profit
Trade exhibitions have become a multi‐million pound business, with a bewildering array of events taking place in the UK alone. Yet how many companies can claim to be satisfied…
Then why do employers refect apprentice ‘insurance’ scheme?
A training fund—supported jointly by the State and private industry — to combat the continuing slump in apprenticeship recruitment has been dropped following opposition from…
DOES BULLOCK OFFER A CARDINAL ROLE FOR THE MIDDLE MANAGERS?
Although the Bullock Committee's proposals on industrial democracy have been quietly put on the shelf, greater employee participation in decision‐making is inevitable. Drawing on…
On test‐The BMW Coupe and the Jaguar XJS
EXAMPLES this month of British and German automotive engineering at their respective best.