Management Decision: Volume 26 Issue 5

Decision Making for a New Work Culture

Philip R. Harris, Dorothy Harris

The ten hallmarks of a post‐industrial organisation are outlined.

Implementing Marketing Strategy

Ronald McTavish

Marketing strategy must be designed and implemented in a total‐organisation and systemic way to succeed.

Master‐minding the Thrust Abroad: An American Education for the Japanese

Norihiko Suzuki

The global advance of Japanese firms has posed a problem: new international business skills are required on a massive scale. The solution has been to send potential international…

The Problems of Success

H.S. Cranston, Eric G. Flamholtz

Sooner or later all growing organisations need to change from one form which they have outgrown to one which will meet their present and future needs.

Job Evaluation: Equal Work — Equal Pay?

Joyce McNally, Sylvia Shimmin

How useful is the procedure used to identify work of equal value between the jobs of men and women?

What Managers Really Do

Alan Mumford

The fundamental contributions of Hotter, Stewart and Mintzberg to the study of management are discussed.

The Accounting Approach to Employee Resourcing

Chris Dawson

The model described is a practical tool designed to improve managerial decision making about employees.

Productivity through People: The Decision‐making Process

William B. Werther

The effectiveness of productivity improvement inputs of capital, technology and the like, is determined in the end by human factors.

Changing to Contract Distribution

David Buck

With contract hire there are no huge investments in the purchase of vehicles.

The Team Management Index in the Recruitment Process

Barrie ffrench

The TMI can prove very successful in helping find the most suitable new recruit.

Approaches for Learning about Expert Systems — A Management Introduction

Jay Liebowitz

The author discusses the provision of training programmes on expert systems managers in the USA.

A Management Dictionary for the 1980s

J. Kenneth Matejka, D. Neil Ashworth, Diane Dodd‐McCue, Richard J. Dunsing

A light‐hearted “dictionary” of management styles is presented which encapsulates a modern, new, expanded, tell‐it‐like‐it‐is summary of management philosophies for the 1980s.

Effective Time Management

Ed Saifullah, Brian H. Kleiner

Time is an invaluable resource which should be used effectively and productively.