Work Study: Volume 45 Issue 6

Focus and strategic action in management: using a systemic model of organizational culture to inform managerial actions

Martin Ringer, Phil Robinson

Aims to assist in improving managerial effectiveness by presenting a view of six different levels of functioning in organizations, together with a means of assessing how well an…

A case study of patient flows using Windows‐based computer simulation

Brian Lehaney, Harry Kogetsidis, Steve Clarke

Suggests that hospitals are faced with variable demand patterns, and simulation provides managers with a powerful means to access the demands on resources created by different…

Test scores of urban and rural bank workers in Nigeria: an analysis of the effect of location on test performance

P.B. Johnnie

Reviews the literature relating to job‐related testing, and describes a specific study which examined the test scores, on written tests, of urban and rural bank workers in a…