International Journal of Manpower: Volume 7 Issue 5

Market Structure and the Labour Process — The Process of Concentration of Control

Andre Manders

The debate about the labour process was, in the second half of the seventies, dominated by the question whether, under all circumstances, management was motivated by the objective…

Productivity, Satisfaction and Involvement: A Brief Note on Some Conceptual Issues

Rabindra N. Kanungo

Increasing productivity is the major goal of every successful organisation, be it private or public, service or manufacturing. In order to achieve this goal, the organisation has…

The Impact of Cultural Values Upon Managers' Choice of Social Power Base

M. Ceyhan Aldemir

In order to influence the behaviour of their subordinates managers adopt several combinations of social power bases. Managerial behaviour differs depending upon the type of power…

The Manpower Society

John Houston

The multi‐disciplinary activities of the Manpower Society in manpower planning, management, and utilisation make it a unique organisation in the UK and the objectives of the…

Equity‐Efficiency Conditions of Competitive‐Co‐operative Product and Labour Markets

Masudul Alam Choudhury

While this paper concentrates on a set of pricing relations for a co‐operative enterprise under market conditions, the institutional‐instrumentalist approach to the study of…

The Impact of Unemployment: A Local Study

C.A. Barton, R. Cutler, D.L. Hodgson, K.J. Rowles

The period 1945 to 1970 was marked by the successful pursuit of full employment policies, due for the most part to the implementation of Keynesian demand‐management policies. This…