Industrial Management: Volume 77 Issue 12
Table of contents
Time to put benefits back on the fringe
ONE of the demands made by the striking power workers — tariff concessions on electricity used by their families — caused a public outcry and was forcefully resisted by their…
In Brief
Green light for assembly research A two‐year group research project for the development of a new and systematic approach to the design of products and components with mechanised…
At Your Service
Black marks for moulding The Rubber and Plastics Research Association is to present the outcome of its survey of productivity in thermo‐plastics custom moulding at a symposium at…
Institute of Factory Management
Modesty forbid, but the Institute of Factory Management has got off to a flying start. Since the first publicity campaign seven months ago, the Institute's membership committee…
Plugging the ‘get out’ clauses
Firms which at present exclude or limit liability for negligence or breach of contract should examine their insurance cover as soon as possible. As from February next year…
Leavening the Westminster mix
A job security guarantee is one way of encouraging people in industry to stand for Parliament — and hence improve business representation in Westminster. But there are snags. What…
Efficiency barrier still to be shifted
Ken Gooding looks at opportunities for better deployment of materials handling equipment against a background of business revival for manufacturers but continuing inefficiency on…
BARGOED: the closure of a mine
As controversy rages about the development of nuclear power, Britain's traditional energy source — the coal mines — continue their inexorable decline. The closure of Bargoed …
PENSION FUND POINTERS
With new laws on retirement benefits now less than five months away, pensions expert John Vann outlines three ways of running a private company scheme.
A new face to clocking in
An end to pay‐day squabbles with the accounts department and greater control over lateness are two of the benefits claimed for a time‐keeping system introduced by one British…
Employers get the hump over the Lump
Renewed efforts to combat tax evasion in the construction industry are meeting opposition from both employers and unions. The unions claim that the latest anti‐Lump measures do…
the Opel Ascona Berlina
WITH the same bodyshell as the Vauxhall Cavalier, the Ascona is virtually indistinguishable from its British assembled counterpart. But it's the extra touches that make the Ascona…