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The industrial training revolution
LADY WILLIAMSThe Industrial Training Act which was passed in 1964 has already created an entirely new attitude to training: in fact it has initiated a revolution both in thinking and in…
Alienation and resistance to change
R. REVANSIN 1900 the maximum speed of human travel was about 150 km/hour—the express train. This was about 3 times as fast as the maximum speeds of antiquity—a man on a horse. Hence…
How the race relation act came to New England
HENRY G. PEARSON•This type of race relations legislation defeats its own purpose because you cannot legislate Christian virtues. •This is a moral issue and has no place in this body. •If this is…
Creative marketing and management science
E.H. VOGELCREATIVE marketing involves in general terms systematically questioning the assumptions behind marketing strategy and tactics and using the best available technology in doing so…
Long‐range management planning
Towards the end of the 1950s, it was apparent that with industrial management demanding ever higher levels of ability and with all growing businesses competing for a fairly…
American business schools—some perspectives
THOMAS KEMPNERUNTIL this year my only distinction compared with other professors of management studies (or indeed heads of business schools) in this country, was that I had never been to the…
Civic affairs— how deeply should companies be involved?
GORDON E. WHEELER“The mayor and several other officials were all executives of one company. This ultimately led to charges that the company was trying to run the town.”
Defining the data processing manager's role
R.J. HARPERTHE rôle of the data processing manager in terms of managing a data processing function, of the computer itself, and of people responsible for systems analysis and design…
Appraising capital investments by computer
IAN HARRISON“INVESTING capital in buildings, equipment, machinery, new product development and personnel training presents management with some of its most difficult problems. Capital…
CYBERNETICS:the new science of management
FRANK GEORGECYBERNETICS is the science of management; and also in some senses the science of science. It contains the fundamental ingredients of what is needed for all of organization and…
Integrating operating systems for management control
JEROME TAGGTODAY, management is being “dazzled by the science” of information systems, computers and operations research techniques. Frequently, glib incompetents intimidate management into…
Northern managers on the move
JOHN HOUSEWITH this dictum an internationally‐based US company blandly assumes that the individual not only largely discounts job preferences but also the location of his work in the…
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- Brandon Randolph-Seng (Editor-in-Chief)