Industrial Management: Volume 79 Issue 8
Table of contents
Making hay out of labour law fever
Chris PhillipsEmployment law has become big business. Never a week goes by without the appearance of yet another book, cassette or film dealing with recruitment and the endless permutations of…
Execs. ‘work too hard for their own good’
The average European businessman works too hard for his own — or his family's — good, according to the findings of a study undertaken by Fernando Bartolomé, assistant professor at…
Watch out when there's a thief about
Firing a worker for theft can be a tricky business—unless you catch hjm (or her) redhanded. Robert Gaitskell gives some guidance against the background of two recent tribunal…
How Weetabix deflects fuel costs
Following our article in last month's issue of IM about the vehicle fuel saving efforts made by British Gas, we've received information from Weetabix on their conservation tests.
How tracked hovercraft went off the rails
The conflict between political expediency and inventive temperament is nowhere better illustrated than in a recently published report on Britain's ill‐fated venture into tracked…
How to end the bureaucratic bodge
On present form emergency re‐introduction of price controls would be another stop‐go bureaucratic bodge, says Stanley Alderson, with red‐tape negating any economic gain. Here, he…
The system is fine — but who handles the bill?
When it comes to capital spending, British industry's habit of departmentalising budgets is reflected in piecemeal acquisition of materials handling equipment, says John Williams…
The undermining effects of profit centres
The concept of profit centres with its image of dynamism and efficiency is popular‐and potentially harmful. Alan Warner—lecturer in financial management and programme director at…
Innovate or Imitate?
A patent is no protection against a close substitute or a novel application. The speed of a new product's development and the timing of its entry to new markets should always take…
Newman's D‐I‐Y noise reduction
Production workers in the Press shop at the Yate, Bristol, works of Newman Electric Motors now lead a much quieter life, thanks to a noise‐reduction system devised by the company.