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This paper considers the problems of developing a policy formation process to cope with the issues created by declining school enrolments, principally those relating to conflict and ambiguity. The paper is based on an analysis of a particular case study of an US school district from which tentative conclusions are derived regarding the political dynamics of policy generation; stages in policy formation; and leadership styles appropriate to contraction.

June 10, 1971 Negligence — Burden of proof — Res ipsa loquitur — Whether necessary to plead‐Accident during course of employment — Workman injured by fall of heavy panels — Action against employer — Allegation that workmen moving panels caused or permitted them to fall — No alternative explanation — Applicability of doctrine of res ipsa loquitur — Damages — Agreed continuing annual loss — Dispute as to total sum awarded — Basis of calculation to be disclosed to court.

March 26; 1971 Negligence — Master and servant — Press operator — Scrap material lying on floor near press — Whether satisfactory system for removing scraps from floor.

May 26, 1971. Limitation of action — Asbestosis — Workmen contracting progressive and insidious disease over number of years due to employers' breaches of statutory duty — Actions commenced pursuant to leave in extended time — Whether workmen entitled to bring action outside satisfactory three‐year period — Limitation Act c.47, 1963, ss. 1 and 7.

Universities are in the information business: to create, interpret, store and transmit knowledge comprises the greater part of their function. (I use the word ‘universities’ as shorthand for ‘universities and other institutions of higher education’, though what I say does apply most particularly to universities.) It would be a reasonable inference, then, that universities would be particularly scrupulous in using information for their own internal management. Observation suggests the contrary: relatively little information is used for decision‐taking, and without a high attention to accuracy.

Aarhus Kommunes Biblioteker (Teknisk Bibliotek), Ingerslevs Plads 7, Aarhus, Denmark. Representative: V. NEDERGAARD PEDERSEN (Librarian).

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.

The Howard Shuttering Contractors case throws considerable light on the importance which the tribunals attach to warnings before dismissing an employee. In this case the tribunal took great pains to interpret the intention of the parties to the different site agreements, and it came to the conclusion that the agreed procedure was not followed. One other matter, which must be particularly noted by employers, is that where a final warning is required, this final warning must be “a warning”, and not the actual dismissal. So that where, for example, three warnings are to be given, the third must be a “warning”. It is after the employee has misconducted himself thereafter that the employer may dismiss.

Since the first Volume of this Bibliography there has been an explosion of literature in all the main areas of business. The researcher and librarian have to be able to uncover specific articles devoted to certain topics. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume III, in addition to the annotated list of articles as the two previous volumes, contains further features to help the reader. Each entry within has been indexed according to the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus and thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid information retrieval. Each article has its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. The first Volume of the Bibliography covered seven journals published by MCB University Press. This Volume now indexes 25 journals, indicating the greater depth, coverage and expansion of the subject areas concerned.

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