JOHN MADDOCK and BERNARD HYAMS
In recent years a noticeable policy trend in South Australia has been towards according to state high schools a greater measure of autonomy in the conduct of their affairs, a…
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In recent years a noticeable policy trend in South Australia has been towards according to state high schools a greater measure of autonomy in the conduct of their affairs, a phenomenon which has prompted a study of the power structure of high schools in that State. Much of the research into this subject focussed on the question of professional leadership within individual institutions. While many investigations in the past have concentrated on the role of the principal as a professional leader, this examination sought in addition to include, for the purposes of comparison, teachers' perceptions of the professional leadership roles of deputy principals and senior subject teachers. The results indicated that while the influence of the principal in professional matters tended to be greater than that of the deputies, it was less than that of the subject seniors.
Communications regarding this column should be addressed to Mrs. Cheney, Peabody Library School, Nashville, Term. 37203. Mrs. Cheney does not sell the books listed here. They are…
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Communications regarding this column should be addressed to Mrs. Cheney, Peabody Library School, Nashville, Term. 37203. Mrs. Cheney does not sell the books listed here. They are available through normal trade sources. Mrs. Cheney, being a member of the editorial board of Pierian Press, will not review Pierian Press reference books in this column. Descriptions of Pierian Press reference books will be included elsewhere in this publication.
Laurent Giraud, Alain Bernard and Laura Trinchera
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the early career values and individual factors of objective career success among graduates from a top-tier French business school.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the early career values and individual factors of objective career success among graduates from a top-tier French business school.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors conducted a quantitative analysis of 629 graduates classified in three job markets according to income: the traditional business market, the alternative market and the high-potential business market. The graduation dates span a period of 12 years before the 2008 Recession.
Findings
The findings suggest that membership of each job market is associated with distinct early career values (when choosing/leaving the first job). Moreover, the authors confirm that the presence of a mentor, international experience, job-hopping and gender, all affect objective career success.
Practical implications
The paper discusses implications for business career development and higher business education.
Originality/value
The originality of this study lies in the identification of the individual factors of objective career success among French business graduates and the links between objective career success and early career values.
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The question of Britain's entry into the Common Market would appear to have been resolved. For a time it did seem as if the Government was looking before it leapt, but if we can…
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The question of Britain's entry into the Common Market would appear to have been resolved. For a time it did seem as if the Government was looking before it leapt, but if we can read the signs aright, only the controversy now remains. The implications of the Common Market, both political and economic, are largely unknown to the public and if recent events among French farmers are an indication, are not entirely acceptable to those already in it.
“To complain of the age we live in, to murmer at the present … to lament the past, and to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common disposition of the greatest part…
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“To complain of the age we live in, to murmer at the present … to lament the past, and to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common disposition of the greatest part of mankind.” So wrote Burke, the better part of two centuries ago, and it is an interesting if idle speculation to wonder what he, or other great men of history, would have to say about the present world and of its future. An eminent American physicist, Dr. Percy W. Bridgman, has been pondering on this subject, and in his essay under the rather familiar title of “ Science and the Future ”, he deals briefly but ably with the ever deepening impact of science on society, and on the need for what he terms “a basis for the peaceful co‐existence of the scientific and the non‐scientific temperaments”. He looks over his shoulder at past episodes among the changes forced by science on world outlook; Newton's laws of motion, that shocked his generation, and those that followed, into realizing what an insignificant part their earth played in the movements of the stellar universe; Darwin, on evolution, putting into words, with chapter and verse, what had been suspected and hinted by many before him, shaking man's pedestal of Special Creation. Others followed, succeeded by Einstein, who greatly upset what we had learned at our mother's knees; and now, the atomic age, with new moons for good measure.
It has often been said that a great part of the strength of Aslib lies in the fact that it brings together those whose experience has been gained in many widely differing fields…
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It has often been said that a great part of the strength of Aslib lies in the fact that it brings together those whose experience has been gained in many widely differing fields but who have a common interest in the means by which information may be collected and disseminated to the greatest advantage. Lists of its members have, therefore, a more than ordinary value since they present, in miniature, a cross‐section of institutions and individuals who share this special interest.
Results of experiments by research experts in the food value of canned foods will shortly be published by the Ministry of Agriculture. According to the Ministry the point has now…
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Results of experiments by research experts in the food value of canned foods will shortly be published by the Ministry of Agriculture. According to the Ministry the point has now been reached when canned foods may be said to sell on their own merits, and not as a mere substitute for fresh foods. The most obvious attribute of canned foods was that they made available a permanent supply of foodstuffs which were otherwise limited to a season, as well as making available to consumers fruits which could not otherwise be obtained in their natural state. In view of the wide range of varieties of canned foods and vegetables now available any generalised statement as to their value was impracticable, but it might be broadly stated that their energy‐producing value, as expressed in calories, was never inferior to that of the same kinds for consumption fresh, or in some other prepared form. Recent research had shown that vitamins were not necessarily destroyed by canning, and indeed some canned foods—for instance, canned tomatoes—might be very nearly as rich in vitamins as the raw product. An outstanding example of the importance of the canned food industry was the market which had been created for British fresh picked peas. Here the farmers had profited by an expanding but controlled increase of acreage under crop, with prices remaining very stable for the last few years. It was probable that the same general tendency would be observable with plums, and with most other canning crops, as the industry developed. In this country an increased consumption of home‐canned goods, if secured at the expense of imported canned goods, or some other imported agricultural commodity, would mean that a new market had been created for British growers, while a similar benefit would be obtained if export markets were developed. This would not be true if home‐canned goods replaced other home‐grown crops, but in this case it might mean a change‐over from an unprofitable to a profitable crop.
IN 1946 there was in the British Isles a clear image of librarianship in most librarians' minds. The image depended on a librarian's professional environment which was of the…
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IN 1946 there was in the British Isles a clear image of librarianship in most librarians' minds. The image depended on a librarian's professional environment which was of the widest possible range, not less in variation than the organisations, institutes or types of community which required library services. Generalisations are like cocoanuts but they provide for the quickest precipitation of variant definitions, after the stones have been thrown at them. A generalisation might claim that, in 1946, public librarians had in mind an image of a librarian as organiser plus technical specialist or literary critic or book selector; that university and institute librarians projected themselves as scholars of any subject with a special environmental responsibility; that librarians in industry regarded themselves as something less than but as supplementing the capacity of a subject specialist (normally a scientist). Other minor separable categories existed with as many shades of meaning between the three generalised definitions, while librarians of national libraries were too few to be subject to easy generalisation.