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Many large companies have recognised the need to change their organisations in order to provide challenging opportunities for workers. The use of job enrichment schemes, autonomous work groups and participative management is now widespread. There are, however, still too many instances of repressive management practice. In this article, the personal experience of a worker in the US car industry forms the basis of a plea for a new approach to development and training. In it, I try to show that inefficient management practices are employed in the plant where I work, and give some suggestions for improvement. The company's name is not given in order to protect the guilty as well as the innocent.

In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.