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Following on from the Government′s White Papers, discusses major educational issues involving the London universities, polytechnics and further education colleges. Examines these reforms and advantages are seen to be many, including greater flexibility and co‐operation. London University itself is faced with major change involving other polys or colleges which may opt to join or go‐it‐alone. Great advantages for students are proposed along with special all‐embracing degrees and courses which could be sold to individual colleges. Shows many advantages for London‐based students.

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Joan undertook the ground-breaking project originally reported in the 1958 pamphlet, Management and Technology, not at one of Britain's great universities, but at the unfashionable address of the South East Essex Technical College (then in the county of Essex but now part of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham). The Human Relations Research Unit had been set up at the college, which is now part of the University of East London, in 1953 with support from a number of agencies including funding ultimately derived from the Marshall Plan. Its express purpose was to enhance the performance of industry and commerce through the application of social science. Those readers familiar with the area will know that, at the time, it was economically and culturally dominated by the Ford assembly plant in nearby Dagenham, but it was also home to a diverse range of small- and medium-sized industrial workshops that were typical of the pre-war Greater London economy (Woodward, 1965; Massey & Meegan, 1982). It was into this diverse industrial milieu that Joan and her research team ventured (Fig. 1), completing their main study in 1958.

Our theoretical understanding of subjective well-being in the workplace is incomplete without a dynamic understanding of antecedents and outcomes of subjective well-being. While between-person differences provide useful information about employee outcomes, these differences do not provide information about the relationships between subjective well-being and employee outcomes that evolve over time and across situations. In this paper, we discuss specific statistical methods within the nomothetic and idiographic perspectives that can support dynamic research on subjective well-being in the workplace and outline unanswered contemporary questions regarding structure, processes, and dynamics of subjective well-being that may be addressed with these methods reviewed; some of which were proposed in early research but progressed slowly due to a lack of adequate methods. This discussion highlights how idiographic methods from outside organizational psychology can be applied to the study of worker subjective well-being to strengthen this dynamic approach in a way that addresses limitations associated with reliance on between-person models.

A great deal has already been written about payments to people in day centres and sheltered workshops, but most writers just discuss what can be done within the law. This paper takes a different approach by considering what the authors think is right rather than just what is allowed.The National Development Team (NDT) has been offering training, evaluation and support for organisational development since the 1970s.

Effective communication through public speaking is an essential skill for executives, and this article explains how to avoid the top eight mistakes that people make when in the spotlight.

Based on the author's experience as an executive coach and former television news anchor, the article uses real‐life examples to illustrate the mis‐steps CEOs and other leaders have made in their public communications, and offers practical tips for how to avoid repeating these eight common mistakes.

The article presents practical ways to avoid eight common and preventable errors that leaders are apt to make in public speaking situations.

In addition to having business or technical skills, CEOs and other leaders must become masterful and effective communicators. This article explains how to avoid common errors in public speaking, and how to identify the lesson in every mistake. Effective communicators don't have to be perfect, but they must be prepared.

The article's value lies in its clear and practical tips that will help leaders handle the public speaking spotlight with confidence and success.

Libraries and librarians have long been early adopters of information technologies. For decades, librarians have applied computerization to library operations. Standardization and computerization of bibliographic records decades ago made possible automation of library systems, the creation and utilization of giant bibliographic utilities such as OCLC with its 52 million records. Collaborative adoption of information technologies decades ago brought shared cataloging, on-line public access catalogs, bibliographic databases, enhanced interlibrary loan and document delivery, and acquisition of information in digital formats, resulting in worldwide access to library resources. Nonetheless the revolution in information technologies that produced the World Wide Web in the mid-1990s hit the information profession of librarianship and the educational establishment like an earthquake.

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