This paper builds a system‐dynamics model of the Mexican economy and tests several propositions regarding policy and income inequality. It concludes, among other things, that one…
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This paper builds a system‐dynamics model of the Mexican economy and tests several propositions regarding policy and income inequality. It concludes, among other things, that one of the most significant developments over the past twenty years has been the declining wage paid to those in the manufacturing export sector. As a consequence, policies aimed at increasing developing states participation in the internationalization of production have been less helpful than supposed.
“Inevitable and profound” are the changes in the distribution world which John Harvey foresees for the rest of the decade. The number of operators in both the own‐account and…
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“Inevitable and profound” are the changes in the distribution world which John Harvey foresees for the rest of the decade. The number of operators in both the own‐account and public sectors will decline; there will be increasing polarisation between the small, local distribution company and the national network companies. Enhanced service levels will inevitably arise as a result of pressure from both manufacturers and their customers. Significantly, John Harvey visualises, in the short to medium term, an inhibition on investment in high technology materials handling, automation, and hardware; he sees more future for the pallet and picking truck than he does for automated warehouses and retrieval systems. SPD is of course one of the leading companies in the distribution sector; it employs nearly 8,000 people with a turnover of £175m from express parcels, haulage, warehousing and distribution and other functions. John Harvey gave this paper at a conference sponsored by Rolatruc Limited of Slough, and it was held in London in February.
Andrew Kinder and Ivan T. Robertson
Explores the practical implications and the psychological meaning of thelinks between specific job competences and personality variables usingbiographical material from the lives…
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Explores the practical implications and the psychological meaning of the links between specific job competences and personality variables using biographical material from the lives of famous people such as Anita Roddick, Sir John Harvey‐Jones, Lord Shaftesbury and Mikhail Gorbachev. Uses results from an earlier study, involving a meta‐analysis of personality data to provide an empirical base. Focuses on four areas: “creative/innovative”, “analysis and judgement”, “resilience” and “persuasiveness”.
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Zouhayr Hayati and Rahmatollah Fattahi
To record and evaluate the impact of the American contribution to Iranian librarianship education.
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Purpose
To record and evaluate the impact of the American contribution to Iranian librarianship education.
Design/methodology/approach
Describes how American support created modern librarianship in Iran, thanks to a range of initiatives such as the American development foundations and programs, and the Fulbright Program, which helped the country to renovate its higher education. Reviews the advantages and disadvantages of the American model of education for librarianship, which was implemented by a number of Iranian universities. This paper also describes how American library educators were influential in the creation of some major professional library organizations such as the Tehran Book Processing Centre (TEBROC), the Iranian Documentation Centre (IRANDOC) and the Iranian Library Association (ILA).
Findings
Concludes that, despite the fact that modern librarianship in Iran came to life after the Second World War due to American assistance, the major shortcomings of the American model of library education in Iran led to lack of creativity in Iranian students, lack of independent research capability, and lack of integration between what students learned and what the Iranian library profession actually needed.
Research limitations/implications
Establishes the context of influence behind the growth of Iranian library science education, which can inform further research on such cultural impacts.
Practical implications
Since many other countries have based LIS education on an American model, they may find some similarities in the discussions in this paper with their own case.
Originality/value
This paper documents an important period of growth and development in the history of Iranian librarianship.
With multiples dominating the grocery sector, distribution has become a key factor in achieving both cost and value advantages in a highly competitive environment. John Harvey…
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With multiples dominating the grocery sector, distribution has become a key factor in achieving both cost and value advantages in a highly competitive environment. John Harvey, speaking at the IGD Convention in Birmingham, takes the view that within three years retailers will have effective control over the grocery supply chain based on over 80% central warehousing and management by information technology.
The title of John Harvey's paper is indicative of his approach: he sees the challenge, where the obstacles lie, and tackles them firmly. One of the points which emerge here is…
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The title of John Harvey's paper is indicative of his approach: he sees the challenge, where the obstacles lie, and tackles them firmly. One of the points which emerge here is that PDM is an exercise in lateral thinking, a revolutionising process which should cut across old commercial boundaries and traditional conflicts of political and business thinking. The problems are assessed and the map of progress is drawn up for the practical application of PDM in the next decade. This is a summary of a paper read at the Centre for PDM National Conference.
THE centenary celebration is that of the apparently prosaic public library acts ; it is not the centenary of libraries which are as old as civilization. That is a circumstance…
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THE centenary celebration is that of the apparently prosaic public library acts ; it is not the centenary of libraries which are as old as civilization. That is a circumstance which some may have overlooked in their pride and enthusiasm for the public library. But no real librarian of any type will fail to rejoice in the progress to which the celebration is witness. For that has been immense. We are to have a centenary history of the Public Library Movement—that is not its title—from the Library Association. We do not know if it will be available in London this month; we fear it will not. We do know its author, Mr. W. A. Munford, has spent many months in research for it and that he is a writer with a lucid and individual Style. We contemplate his task with a certain nervousness. Could anyone less than a Carlyle impart into the dry bones of municipal library history that Strew these hundred years, the bones by the wayside that mark out the way, the breath of the spirit that will make them live ? For even Edward Edwards, whose name should be much in the minds and perhaps on the lips of library lovers this month, could scarcely have foreseen the contemporary position ; nor perhaps could Carlyle who asked before our genesis why there should not be in every county town a county library as well as a county gaol. How remote the days when such a question was cogent seem to be now! It behoves us, indeed it honours us, to recall the work of Edwards, of Ewart, Brotherton, Thomas Greenwood, Nicholson, Peter Cowell, Crestadoro, Francis Barrett, Thomas Lyster, J. Y. M. MacAlister, James Duff Brown and, in a later day without mentioning the living, John Ballinger, Ernest A. Baker, L. Stanley Jast, and Potter Briscoe—the list is long. All served the movement we celebrate and all faced a community which had to be convinced. It still has, of course, but our people do now allow libraries a place, more or less respected, in the life of the people. Librarians no longer face the corpse‐cold incredulity of the so‐called educated classes, the indifference of the masses and the actively vicious hostility of local legislators. Except the illuminated few that existed. These were the men who had the faith that an informed people was a happier, more efficient one and that books in widest commonalty spread were the best means of producing such a people. These, with a succession of believing, enduring librarians, persisted in their Struggle with cynic and opponent and brought about the system and the technique we use, modified of course and extended to meet a changing world, but essentially the same. Three names we may especially honour this September, Edward Edwards, who was the sower of the seed; MacAlister, who gained us our Royal Charter ; and John Ballinger, who was the person who most influenced the introduction of the liberating Libraries Act of 1919.
Most managers are men and most management courses make little referenceto the specific needs of women. In recent years women into managementcourses have been developed but they…
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Most managers are men and most management courses make little reference to the specific needs of women. In recent years women into management courses have been developed but they are still only a small percentage of the total number of management courses. Explores the value of women into management courses from the viewpoint of somebody who had been involved in providing such courses and then became a woman chief executive. Discusses why such courses are needed and what such courses should and should not include.
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Michael S. Ridout, Managing Director of Uxbridge‐based Auto Diesels Braby Limited, has been appointed a Director of Braby Leslie Limited, the parent company of Auto Diesels. Braby…
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Michael S. Ridout, Managing Director of Uxbridge‐based Auto Diesels Braby Limited, has been appointed a Director of Braby Leslie Limited, the parent company of Auto Diesels. Braby Leslie Limited are a publicly quoted company and have ten principal operating companies—including Auto Diesels—throughout the UK in the Mechanical and Civil Engineering Fields.
Asserts that for quality to become part of a company′s natural way of working it needs to be accepted by everyone. Describes how J.I. Case, by utilising its people, has turned…
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Asserts that for quality to become part of a company′s natural way of working it needs to be accepted by everyone. Describes how J.I. Case, by utilising its people, has turned itself around and is now focusing on the future. Suggests reasons why the implementation of quality is not always successful. Discusses the company′s approach. Asserts that too often quality is seen as product quality only and the benefits of involving everyone are ignored. Concludes the company will look to the future by utilising people to produce quality products and services, on time at competitive costs/prices.