Industrial Management: Volume 79 Issue 3
Table of contents
Mr Callaghan is wearing…
Chris PhillipsA fashion writer suggested on the radio the other day that women unable to afford a new spring dress could spruce up last year's outfit with this year's ‘in’ accessories — gloves…
Fighting a losing battle with form filling
The FFF is turning into a particularly bitter battle, judging from the latest front‐line reports. FFF? What else but the Fight on Form Filling which is being waged by battlions of…
Energy conservation
A false ceiling with air heating and circulation equipment has been installed recently by Carrier‐Ross at Thames Board Mills, Purfleet, to replace one damaged by fire.
Protection from Employment Protection
John Vann outlines an insurance scheme which has come about in response to the financial penalties — and demands on management time — which a company is likely to incur if it gets…
Let's have an end to conspiracy!
Stanley Alderson takes a sympathetic look at trade union resistance to changes in the law concerning picketing, pointing out that, historically, the judiciary has consistently…
Publish and be praised
Industry's house journals come in for some stick for being management propaganda tools. But there is a more constructive side, as John Bingham reports.
Cutting the cost of accident repair
With crash repair costs playing a key part in car insurance premiums, efforts to improve repair techniques are to be welcomed by fleet operators and individual car users alike…
It's not just bad weather that does the damage
Improvements in insulation standards, coupled with the trend to accommodate service equipment in the roof‐space, have made factory roofs more susceptible to stress and damage…
Keeping the workers happy — and productive!
Professor Tom Kempner, of the Henley Administrative Staff College, looks at the way in which academic theories on motivation and behaviour have been modified by management…
Products and services
A dry cleaning tokens scheme which allows management and staff to have their business clothes dry cleaned regularly without using personal funds has been launched by Cleaning…
Property and investment
John Vann examines an insurance scheme especially designed for industrial estate tenants, and explains how policyholders can plan their cover to meet the risk of under‐insurance.