Management Decision: Volume 4 Issue 3

Comment: Management Technology in Perspective

Hugh Parker

Management Decision was originally founded to publish the latest developments in all areas of management science and practice, for the benefit of serious professional managers and…

APPEARANCE MANAGEMENT: Do managers manage?

RS Jones

The word 'manage' has been defined as “to cause persons to submit to one's control”. Studies of both the operation of wage systems and of budgets show that these managerial…

Business Schools: Is the backlash justified?

Andrew Robertson

A quarter of a century ago, the second world war ended and Britain's first tottering steps to economic recovery began. Two events of significance to bowler‐hatted servicemen, and…

Strategic planning: the Boeing system

Henry Goldie

Business systems in different countries vary for a great many reasons, some of which may be sociological, some political and some geographical. This article deals with the…

Corporate planning in an industrial training board

Travers Honeybourne

The planning and development of a nationwide organization is a challenge which any corporate planner would welcome. This article tells the story of the planning manager's role in…

Automated manufacturing planning: The present position and future possibilities

P. Bruce Berra, Moshe M. Barash

In late 1946, Mr. D. S. Harder of the Ford Motor Company introduced the word automation. Shortly after, much was said about the application of the principles of automation to the…

The medium is the barrier: communications breakdown in management

T.B. Ward

A considerable communications gap now exists between the new generation of 'datacrats' and the managements which employ them. In the opinion of the author, this gap is growing…

Advanced management studies at Birmingham

AL Minkes

The Advanced Management Course held at the Graduate Centre for Management Studies in Birmingham and introduced in 1965 represented what was in several ways a novel step in…