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Considers the extent to which one organization through rationalization and redundancy programmes has violated its psychological contracts with its middle manager employees by removing the prospect of a traditional career. Offers a review of the issues raised in the literature on careers and the psychological contract and a case study of the impact of change on individual middle managers. Describes the empirical work carried out in British Telecom on which the article is based. Concludes that both the nature of middle management jobs and the career opportunities available have changed considerably, resulting in breaches of the psychological contract. However, individual managers have reacted differently to the changes, depending on their ability and willingness to pursue informal networks and personal contacts.

This article describes a research study conducted in Brisbane, Australia, that sought to establish older people's views on what contributes to their quality of life in residential settings. Focus group interviews were used to explore the key aspects of residential life that equated with a high‐quality experience. A number of key themes were identified, particularly relating to issues about autonomy, control and staff‐resident interactions. The article concludes with recommendations for those working in, or providing, residential care.

The purpose of this article is to analyse the continuing problem of web accessibility for disabled people as a critical information systems issue.

The ways in which the web is used by disabled people, and problems that can arise, are described and related to the development of critical disability theory from older models of disability, including the medical and social models, noting that the social construction of disability model may tend to mask the embodied, lived experience of disability.

The lack of interaction of the critical disability approach and dominant discourses of web accessibility and internet studies, particularly in relation to embodiment, is a major contributor to the continuance of an inaccessible Worldwide web.

The paper does not offer a comprehensive set of web accessibility issues, concentrating instead on the most common problems as exemplars.

The paper raises awareness of web accessibility.

The paper brings the topic of accessibility of technology by disabled people into the critical information systems arena and also incorporates social construction of disability and theoretical considerations of embodiedness in its analysis.

Professor Newell in a recent statement has expressed the opinion that the ills to which farm live stock are subject, such as bovine tuberculosis—“a deficiency disease”—and foot and mouth disease can be traced back to the wrong treatment of the soil itself, from which spring the crops on which the stock are fed; and further, that bacteria which we understand from him are normally beneficient may by diseased conditions in the subject be transformed into malignant varieties to which the disease itself is wrongly ascribed. Diseased conditions in stock being in the first place induced by improper, or injudicious feeding, inadequate byre accommodation. foul water, and insufficient fresh air and sunshine. He goes to the root of the matter in more senses than one when he suggests, as we understand him to do, that the time has come for a thorough revision in our methods of soil and crop treatment. This, however, is a matter which concerns the specialist in these highly complex problems. As to the treatment to which live stock, and especially bovines, are too frequently subjected, it requires no expert knowledge to understand and to condemn it. We imagine that we follow the line of reasoning drawn by the Professor when we say that the incidence of bovine tuberculosis in our dairy herds at present has arisen from ill treatment, of the kind he describes, in the past, and this is all too prevalent at present. We only wish we could share his optimism when he states that bovine tuberculosis could be stamped out quickly by stock breeders and agriculturists giving their close attention to the points he mentions. That this would be far more than “a step in the right direction” we admit, but it implies that every cow keeper in the country has the requisite knowledge and the desire to apply that knowledge for the public benefit and quite conceivably at some considerable pecuniary loss to himself. As far as our knowledge of the matter goes the average cow keeper does not possess the requisite amount of altruism to make this even remotely possible.

This paper aims to, using the example of the highly globalised shipping industry, shed light upon the practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the extent to which it might be relied upon to fill international regulatory gaps.

The paper draws upon findings from a questionnaire study of shipboard accommodation.

The paper finds that seafarers’ welfare remains under-considered by many companies. It suggests that the consolidation of regulation pertaining to seafarer living conditions under the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) has been timely. However, a priority for the international community should be to develop the relatively low standards currently required by existing regulation to provide for better standards of seafarer welfare across the global fleet.

This evidence from the shipping industry challenges arguments for the normative basis for CSR and lends weight to those suggesting that the apparent exercise of CSR by multinational companies should broadly be understood as an exercise in public relations.

The research points to the need for the MLC to be amended to raise the mandatory standards of shipboard accommodation in the merchant shipping industry.

The paper contributes unique data on seafarers’ living conditions and augments the body of knowledge concerning the exercise of CSR in global sectors.

The purpose of this paper is to draw on emerging ideas related to the concept of entrepreneurial leadership which emphasises a “distributed” model synonymous with terms which indicate that authority is decentralised (“shared”, “team”, “democratic”, “representative” and “dispersed”).

A model of authentic entrepreneurial leadership was developed based on a review of the literature. Eight small manufacturing companies were selected to empirically examine, via interviews, the extent to which authentic entrepreneurial leadership was adopted by owner‐managers.

Interviews with owner‐managers indicated that they did in fact rely on an approach to leadership which emphasised the role of employees as genuine stakeholders in the business. This finding can be related to the concept of what Dovey and Fenech, describe as “enterprise logic” which the authors link to the emergence of knowledge‐based capitalism. Owner‐managers were keen to involve their employees in development of the businesses through the development of new products and new services.

This study confirms earlier work which points out the importance of entrepreneurs adopting an authentic approach to leadership. Authentic leadership means that employees are encouraged to develop their individual strengths and owner‐managers adopt an ethical approach to their dealings with all stakeholders.

The paper develops a model of entrepreneurial leadership which sets out the links to organizational innovation. The empirical study provides clear evidence of links between this approach to management and higher levels of innovation within small firms.

The purpose of this paper is to consider the potential use of creative, arts-based methods to address child sexual exploitation (CSE) through connecting with and supporting young people affected by CSE; and engaging the wider community through awareness-raising and education to help keep young people safe. The use of the arts in building understanding, promoting agency, educating and countering negative portrayals of those affected by CSE are also explored.

A literature review identified that there is currently a limited evidence-base surrounding the use of arts in addressing the negative outcomes for young people affected by CSE and promoting the inclusion and safety of young people in the community. To explore the potential use of the arts in engaging young people and the communities they inhabit, this paper draws from research with other “hard to engage” and stigmatised groups, and learning from efforts to tackle other sensitive and challenging issues that impact on communities.

The paper suggests that despite the relatively young evidence base concerning the role of creative, arts-based methods to tackle CSE, there is relevant transferable learning that suggests that there is potential in utilising the arts to help prevent CSE and promote community safety.

There is a clear need to consider the ethical implications of this work and to further examine how the arts may be utilised to tackle CSE and bring about positive outcomes for both individuals and for the wider community.

The paper brings together bodies of literature from other fields to explore the potential use of creative arts-based methods to tackle a significant contemporary issue of community safety.

AFTER MORE THAN 3 years of deliberations, the Committee to consider the Law on Copyright and Designs has reported to the government, and the report (Cmnd 6732) is published by HMSO at £4.10.