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The problems for employers that are associated with alcoholism and drug abuse, their legal liabilities, the need for a substance abuse policy, and how employers should treat addiction problems are defined. Individual cases are discussed to clarify when alcoholism becomes misconduct and the employer′s position with respect to employees′ drug problems at work and outside work.

Examines the legal factors surrounding employers′ treatment of misconduct and substance abuse. Discusses problems of alcoholism and drug abuse for the employer, employers′ legal liabilities, how to treat addiction problems, investigations, recurring problems, misconduct, and drug problems in and out of work. Concludes that treatment should be based on the principle of treating each case on its merits with sympathy, understanding and compassion.

Smoking at work, as reported in Facilities in March 1986, is an increasingly controversial issue. The more people who ‘kick the habit’ (over a million gave up between 1980–1982) the more non‐smokers there are to complain. Not only are people annoyed by the smells and irritations — dry eyes, sore throats — caused by cigarette smoke but they are becoming worried by the growing evidence that passive smoking, the involuntary inhalation of other people's smoke, is dangerous to their health.

Weblogs or “blogs” are a recent addition to the library professional's toolkit. They can be particularly useful to library managers, whether as a means of maintaining current awareness of managerial trends or as a cheap alternative to project management software.

Provides a framework for the investigation of discrimination and harassment. Includes the obligations of employer, steps to take when investigation is required covering such areas as purpose and scope of investigation, an appropriate investigator, interviewing relevant parties and documentation.

This research aims to explore the professional identity of supervisors and their perceptions of stress in doctoral learning supervision. The research determines ways of developing strategies of resilience and well-being to overcome stress, leading to positive outcomes for supervisors and students.

Research is in two parts: first, rescrutinising previous work, and second, new interviews with international and UK supervisors gathering evidence of doctoral supervisor stress, in relation to professional identity, and discovering resilience and well-being strategies.

Supervisor professional identity and well-being are aligned with research progress, and effective supervision. Stress and well-being/resilience strategies emerged across three dimensions, namely, personal, learning and institutional, related to emotional, professional and intellectual issues, affecting identity and well-being. Problematic relationships, change in supervision arrangements, loss of students and lack of student progress cause stress. Balances between responsibility and autonomy; uncomfortable conflicts arising from personality clashes; and the nature of the research work, burnout and lack of time for their own work, all cause supervisor stress. Developing community support, handling guilt and a sense of underachievement and self-management practices help maintain well-being.

Only experienced supervisors (each with four doctoral students completed) were interviewed. The research relies on interview responses.

Sharing information can lead to informed, positive action minimising stress and isolation; development of personal coping strategies and institutional support enhance the supervisory experience for supervisors and students.

The research contributes new knowledge concerning doctoral supervisor experience, identity and well-being, offering research-based information and ideas on a hitherto under-researched focus: supervisor stress, well-being and resilience impacting on supervisors’ professional identity.

The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains features to help the reader to retrieve relevant literature from MCB University Press' considerable output. Each entry within has been indexed according to author(s) and the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus. The latter thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid retrieval. Each article or book is assigned its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. This Volume indexes 29 journals indicating the depth, coverage and expansion of MCB's portfolio.