Industrial Management: Volume 76 Issue 5
Table of contents
The rift remains…
Worker participation has a bewildered look about it, rather like a person who finds himself into middle age without having gone through infanthood.
In Brief
No self‐respecting executives will bow down to a code of dress which they find unacceptable to their own personalities or which demands they fit a corporate mould.
THE METRICATION MUDDLE
Metrication Board chief, Lord Orr‐Ewing, talks to Industrial Management about his fight against inertia and downright hostility in the metric conversion programme. The longer the…
When and how to use a specialist…
Any company thinking of calling in outside help to do its dirty work needn't bother to read this. For those who seek external specialists for a more constructive role, Burton…
VOTES OF CONFIDENCE?
What are the risks of another ballot rigging scandal to rival that of the Electricians' Union 20 years ago? Is British trade unionism really open to infiltration by political…
The plight of small firms
At a time when small businesses are perilously close to extinction — brought about by suppressive laws and inflation — we examine why their survival is vital for Britain's…
WHY MAINTENANCE MAKES SENSE
An efficient approach to factory and office maintenance and cleaning prolongs the working life of equipment — thus helping to keep down capital overheads — and improves staff…
Alfetta: Paying over the odds for the name
ALFA Romeo have always professed to use the race track as a test‐bed for their production cars. The Alfetta 1.6 litre saloon appears to justify this claim, being very much a car…