Industrial Management: Volume 75 Issue 2

KEEPING THE DOORS OPEN

FOREIGN cars accounted for almost a third of all sales in the United Kingdom in January — the latest figures available. Datsun, the Japanese manufacturer, continued to dominate…

EASY COME, EASY GO

Flexible working hours (FWH) in industry really do work, says Geoffrey Tyler, explaining how this system operates in improving labour moral and sometimes increasing productivity

When your cash flow is too slow

IN current inflationary conditions, companies without a cash strategy can easily be caught off balance. Businessmen cannot always foresee in detail how the economic situation will…

With a social conscience

F. Harman, John Humble

PERHAPS surprisingly, at a time of economic crisis, British companies are taking their social responsibilities much more seriously than ever before.

PENSIONS

THE GOVERNMENT'S White Paper, “Strategy for Pensions” and the consequent legislation, which will be implemented this year, aims to introduce the principle and practice of…

A Mecca for exporters

ALMOST overnight, the oil‐exporting nations, particularly the Arab states of the Middle East and Moslem but non‐Arab Iran, have become major economic forces with the money and…

THE FLEET'S IN

AT a conservative estimate, there are probably some five million private cars in Britain which are company‐owned. The fact that this figure is increasing steadily is an indictment…

THE CHANGING SHAPE OF BUSSINESS FORMS

Orville Robinson surveys the latest documentation and record systems and services for facilitating company efficiency in paperwork

Why companies are in a fix over fixed‐term contracts

A CONTRACT of employment sets out the formal relationship between company and employee and defines what each can rightfully expect from the other. The Contracts of Employment Act…