Management Research News: Volume 4 Issue 2

The Cross‐National Study of Management and Organisation

Roger Mansfield

There can be no doubt that the particular political, economic and social conditions which pertain in a given society will substantially affect the nature of the managerial task…

Female Patterns of Work, Remuneration, Facilities and Opportunities

Derek L. Bosworth, Peter J. Dawkins

While a great deal of information has been accumulated in recent years about the role of women in employment, by the end of the 1970s considerable gaps in our understanding still…

Some Insights into the Banking Behaviour of Older Consumers: An Empirical Study

Anthony J. Alessandra, Louis H. Knierim, Ugur Yavas

A trend which will have a significant impact on tomorrow's marketing is the growth of the market of the older consumers. In America in 1970 there were 18.6 million people in the…

Occupational Longevity: A Strategy for Industrial Productivity Improvement

Mark R. Edwards

An occupational longevity programme focuses on the ways to maximise the performance and life satisfaction of managers during their tenure with an organisation. Actions are…

The Effects of Management Understanding on Human Resources and Productivity

Frank H. Cassell, Burleigh Gardner

At the moment of their greatest political triumph in a quarter of a century, business management is under fire for losing leadership in world commerce and trade. Ascendancy to the…