Industrial Management: Volume 79 Issue 11
Table of contents
The question of the hour
Micro‐electronics offers this country material abundance in conjunction with full employment and a three‐day week — a prospect easily realisable within the working lives of those…
Managers' ‘aggro’ over labour laws
Industrial relations in Britain have been aggravated rather than eased by recent employment legislation, concludes a survey on management attitudes, compiled by the Polytechnic of…
Waste heat recovery with a Wing wheel
An independent report, commissioned by the Department of Energy, has shown that a Yorkshire carpet yarn manufacturer is saving over £2,000 a year on energy costs as a result of…
Import curbs: Necessary and not so evil
The Government's present economic policy is paving the way for tougher import controls, says Stanley Alderson, arguing that Conservative ‘free trade’ thinking is an outmoded…
Special report — heating, ventilation and standby power
Energy costs now dictate that heating and ventilation systems must be controlled to the closest possible degree. Technology — particularly in the form of computers — imposes its…
Are you getting your moneysworth from the fact finders?
Britain's pay investigators have themselves come under scrutiny — and the outcome has placed a big question mark against the accuracy of salary surveys. Report by Bob Crew.
Problems multiply in the management‐accounting divide
Too many UK executives place financial knowledge in the ‘nice to know’ category rather than as a vital component in management training, says Alan Warner. Here, he puts the case…
Deciding priorities or responding to pressures?
Too many managers suffer from ‘inflation of time’; that is to say, they devalue future time by using it to solve present problems. Each time they put off a portion of their work…
Engine protection against explosive vapours
A system for averting gas exlosions caused by engine ignitions has been introduced by a Sussex‐based company, Pyroban. The idea behind this project originated in ICI, following…