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Examines the issues which managers consider when making career decisions and finds that, faced with reduced levels of employment security, they are redefining careers in terms that now include references to lifestyle and the achievement of a balance between the personal, domestic and employment aspects of their lives. Identifies that changes in any of these areas of managers’ lives can cause them to revise their career strategies. Identifies that life events also have a major impact upon career decisions. Recognises that there are gender‐related differences in the career strategies that managers adopt. Concludes that for some managers the definition of self is becoming less focused upon employment and more related to lifestyle.

Provides an interpretation of some of the consequences of recent transitions in Hungary and how these consequences have affected managerial behaviour in that country. Using a qualitative methodology argues that the powerful effect of the transition at a societal and an individual level must be placed in the context of the recent past in Hungary. The explanations of managers′ perceived behaviour in Hungary are inconclusive when using inferences based on frequently and commonly applied research assumptions explaining the behaviour by reference to experiences of state‐socialism alone. Numerous behavioural phenomena, albeit not independent from the past, can be explained equally well by the effect of transition on people. The effects of transition will be interpreted as a form of societal acculturation experienced as acculturative stress at the individual level. Submits that these interpretations have validity when explaining people in international organizational settings which themselves can further exacerbate acculturative stress.

February 20, 1974 Master and Servant — Breach of statutory duty — Mine — Duty to secure safety of working places and obtain all information relevant thereto — Fall of heavy stone from colliery roof injuring miner — Whether breach of duty — Mines and Quarries Act, 1954 (c.70), s.48(1), (2).

It is estimated that in this country alone no less than 2,000,000 tons of food annually is destroyed by reason of the depredations of rats and mice. Neither powers nor organisations existed at the outbreak of war. which were adequate for the purpose of preventing wastage, which, under war conditions, became intolerable. That there was on the Statute Book the Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919, cannot be denied, but no authority existed for the control of destructive insects and mites in foodstuffs. The powers and duties vested in local authorities under the Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act were of little avail and it was allowed to fall into disuse without alternative provision being made. The control of these several groups of pests has for some years past been dependent on the powers derived from the Defence Regulations and continued under the Supplies and Services (Transitional Powers) Act. The profession of the rat catcher is an old and universal one. In 17th century Italy the “ professional ” was recognised by his long pole bearing a square flag on which were representations of cats and mice; the Chinese equivalent bore a sign depicting a cat in a bag. An accepted method of destruction quoted in The Book of Days is one attributed to the Irish, who believed that they could rhyme any beast to death, and in particular the rat. Another prevalent notion was that rats had a presentiment of coming evil and always deserted in time a ship about to be wrecked, or a house about to be flooded or burned. In 1854 it was seriously reported in a Scottish provincial newspaper that the night before a town mill was destroyed by fire the rats belonging to the establishment were met migrating in a body to a neighbouring field. A more scientific approach is now being made to the problem. In August, 1947, a meeting was held in London to discuss the world‐wide problem of losses as a result of damage by insects, fungi and rodents, and to consider the steps to be taken to reduce such losses. Embracing a general consideration of the problem of infestation control, the meeting, convened by Dr. L. E. Kirk, head of the Plant Industry Research Branch, Agriculture Division, F.A.O., covered many phases of the subject, ranging from the economics of the problem to the toxicity of new synthetic insecticides. Accepting the principle that efficient prevention and control of food infestation was essential to the conservation of the world's food supply, the meeting recommended that:—