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Publication date: 1 December 1965

BERNARD ARMSTRONG

Staff are the most important factor of any organisation and by staff I mean salaried staff, not all employees, or commercial as distinct from industrial employees. This is not to…

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Staff are the most important factor of any organisation and by staff I mean salaried staff, not all employees, or commercial as distinct from industrial employees. This is not to say that they are the only indispensable factor in an organisation, for other factors — the shareholders, the production workers, clerical workers and the students in an educational organisation — all these are obviously indispensable. But above all, the factor that the organisation depends on most of all is the staff and it is also the factor upon which all others depend. The staff take most responsibility, they make most of the decisions, they are most organisation‐minded and they are most organisation dependent. They tend to make their careers in one organisation; they are in Whyte's phrase ‘Organisation Men’.

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Education + Training, vol. 7 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 September 1965

BERNARD ARMSTRONG

Dr Brosan's article is to be welcomed on three grounds: it is in itself interesting and illuminating; the subject is of very great importance; and management and organisational…

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Dr Brosan's article is to be welcomed on three grounds: it is in itself interesting and illuminating; the subject is of very great importance; and management and organisational matters relating to technical colleges are of the greatest importance at the present time.

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Education + Training, vol. 7 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 January 1966

BERNARD ARMSTRONG

Selection policy and procedure. The first point here is the policy on internal promotion versus external recruitment. In the postwar conditions of full employment and a welfare…

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Selection policy and procedure. The first point here is the policy on internal promotion versus external recruitment. In the postwar conditions of full employment and a welfare state there has been a significant movement in the business world towards internal promotion as distinct from external selection. On the grounds of hard economics it is often found cheaper to promote an existing servant than it is to search the market and have to pay far more than you intended for somebody of uncertain qualities from outside. On social grounds it is also recognised as better to encourage deserving internal candidates than to impose external personnel on a community which is working together reasonably happily and satisfactorily. Recourse to external candidates is normally to be preferred only when a real shake‐up and warning to existing staff is intended or where some new development is afoot and where none of the existing staff has had the appropriate experience.

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Education + Training, vol. 8 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 June 1965

BERNARD ARMSTRONG

Technical colleges are expected to be in the van of technological knowledge and methods and to have the most up‐to‐date equipment their finances will allow. This is how they would…

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Technical colleges are expected to be in the van of technological knowledge and methods and to have the most up‐to‐date equipment their finances will allow. This is how they would wish others to see them and how they would wish to see themselves. They do not seem to give anything like the same consideration to the other side — their own organisation, administrative procedures and other management matters — and this seems to be particularly true of the personnel aspects of management.

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Education + Training, vol. 7 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 November 1966

FE council? Sir, The present position regarding the provision of external syllabuses and more particularly examinations in further education is far from satisfactory. Recent…

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FE council? Sir, The present position regarding the provision of external syllabuses and more particularly examinations in further education is far from satisfactory. Recent articles by Dr Leese and Mr Finch and the reply by Mr Holbein regarding the City and Guilds of London Institute are symptoms of this. For very many reasons, further education is in need of an independent guiding body analogous to the Schools Council in the secondary field. The CGLI has styled itself the ‘chosen instrument’ for examinations in the field of technical education and has become far too large to meet the changing pattern of present day needs. The regional examining bodies are in a ‘concordat’ strait‐jacket. Under ‘Comment’ in your September issue on examining at 16+, you end — “So we can welcome the teacher based examination(CSE); the nextstep is to develop the teacher and play down the examination”. This is equally valid for further education and until we get a Further Education Council actively and independently to assess our needs, the multitude of examining bodies will continue to go their own ways.

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Education + Training, vol. 8 no. 11
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 6 September 2018

Ericka B. Adams and Claudio G. Vera Sanchez

Purpose – The purpose of this chapter is to explore homicide trends in Trinidad and Tobago, to describe the factors that impact the risk for homicide perpetration and…

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Purpose – The purpose of this chapter is to explore homicide trends in Trinidad and Tobago, to describe the factors that impact the risk for homicide perpetration and victimization, and to discuss the effectiveness of strategies implemented by law enforcement agencies to prosecute homicide cases.

Design/methodology/approach – The chapter employs a detailed review of relevant literature to explore homicide trends and the strategies instituted to investigate and prosecute this criminal offense.

Findings – Our findings suggest that homicide victimization and perpetration is concentrated among young men of African descent, who reside in underprivileged communities with a high population density. Gang violence prompted by a narco-drug economy, coupled with gun violence, accentuates the risk of homicide perpetration and victimization. As homicide rates remained high, law enforcement officials in Trinidad and Tobago were ill equipped to investigate and make arrests in these offenses.

Originality/value – This chapter adds to the literature on homicide in Trinidad and Tobago by (1) showing that geographic and demographic factors structure homicide victimization and (2) exploring how the political economy of drugs in the Caribbean contributes to murder.

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Homicide and Violent Crime
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78714-876-5

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Publication date: 1 August 2002

Pawan Budhwar, Andy Crane, Annette Davies, Rick Delbridge, Tim Edwards, Mahmoud Ezzamel, Lloyd Harris, Emmanuel Ogbonna and Robyn Thomas

Wonders whether companies actually have employees best interests at heart across physical, mental and spiritual spheres. Posits that most organizations ignore their workforce �…

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Wonders whether companies actually have employees best interests at heart across physical, mental and spiritual spheres. Posits that most organizations ignore their workforce – not even, in many cases, describing workers as assets! Describes many studies to back up this claim in theis work based on the 2002 Employment Research Unit Annual Conference, in Cardiff, Wales.

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Management Research News, vol. 25 no. 8/9/10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0140-9174

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Publication date: 23 August 2021

Mohammad Nurunnabi

The objective of this study aims at reviewing a synthesis of the economic impact of the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in an attempt to…

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The objective of this study aims at reviewing a synthesis of the economic impact of the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in an attempt to provide directions for future research. There are significant evidences of adopting a high-quality set of harmonised accounting standards (i.e. IFRS) fosters trade and foreign direct investment (FDI), financial transparency, and comparability and reduces information asymmetries. From the extensive structured review of literature using the Scopus database tool, the study reviewed 108 articles, and in particular, the topic-related 41 articles were analysed. Seven journals contribute to 39% of the articles (The Accounting Review; European Accounting Review; International Journal of Accounting; Journal of Accounting Research; Revista Espanola de Financiacion y Contabilidad; Asian Review of Accounting; and International Journal of Economics and Management). However, most of the cited journals were Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, European Accounting Review, and International Journal of Accounting (Armstrong, Barth, Jagolinzer, & Riedl, 2010; Brüggemann, Hitz, & Sellhorn, 2013; Christensen, Lee, & Walker, 2007; Daske, Hail, Leuz, & Verdi, 2008, 2013). Most of the studies did not use any theory, and most of the articles utilised quantitative approach. The study calls for future research on the theoretical impactions on the economic impact of IFRS implementation in a country-specific study, cross-country study, and global study. Future studies should also focus on the policymaking agenda for the local and international standard setters.

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International Financial Reporting Standards Implementation: A Global Experience
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-80117-440-4

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Publication date: 9 April 2018

Chris Corker

This article aims to explore the impact of the Great War on the Sheffield armaments industry through the use of four company case studies in Thomas Firth, John Brown, Cammell…

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Purpose

This article aims to explore the impact of the Great War on the Sheffield armaments industry through the use of four company case studies in Thomas Firth, John Brown, Cammell Laird and Hadfields. It charts the evolving situation the armaments companies found themselves in after the end of the conflict and the uncertain external environment they had to engage with. The article also examines the stagnant nature of armaments companies’ boards of directors in the 1920s and the ultimate rationalisation of the industry at the close of the decade.

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The research design is based around a close examination of the surviving manuscript records of each of the companies included, the records of the speeches recorded by chairpersons at annual meetings and some governmental records.

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The article concludes by outlining how the end of the Great War continued to affect the industry for the following decade and the complex evolving situation with a changing external environment and continuity of management internally ultimately leading to mergers in the industry.

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This article uses a number of underused manuscript records to examine the Sheffield armaments industry and explores the effect of a global mega event in the Great War on one of the most technologically advanced industries of the period.

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Journal of Management History, vol. 24 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1751-1348

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Publication date: 7 December 2016

Arch G. Woodside

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Case Study Research
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78560-461-4

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