Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 7 Issue 10

Effective practical information systems: The Corporate Report

GEOFF SMITH

The Corporate Report is the title of a discussion paper recently published by the Accountant's Standards Steering Committee. As custodians of our business information systems, the…

A question of organisation

NEVILLE HARRIS, EDDIE PALMER

‘Help social workers to organise themselves? You must be mad!’ ‘It can't be done — there are too many imponderables!’ ‘Why bother to plan when the majority of it is going to be…

Changing managers or changing situations

Stephen Fineman

It makes good economic sense for an organisation to fully utilise its existing manpower and to exploit relatively rare talent—hence training programmes designed to improve…

Organisation behaviour: Whatever made you think that organisation behaviour was to do with people?

IAIN MANGHAM

What follows in this article can best be described as what German scholars call unabgesichert—that which is insufficiently protected from critical attack. What I have to say is…

Training and employment of the disabled

DEIRDRE MORTON

Industry has a vital part to play in helping as many disabled people as possible to lead a worthwhile life, and in giving them the opportunity to earn their own living. Many…

Should students evaluate lectures?

TD Buss

Odiorne, like Jerkedal classified three major types of research design for the evaluation of teacher effectiveness.

A case for discussion

JOHN L. HEATH

The formation, in 1974, of the Case Clearing House of Great Britain and Ireland, as a national resource centre for management case material is indicative of the renewed interest…