Social policy, it used to be said, is about children and pensioners; the middle‐aged can look after themselves. They sit in the seats of power, they have secure jobs and…
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Social policy, it used to be said, is about children and pensioners; the middle‐aged can look after themselves. They sit in the seats of power, they have secure jobs and well‐established homes, and their financial position is usually easier than that either of families with growing children or of pensioners. Disasters can happen in middle age as at other times — widowerhood, physical break‐down, long‐term unemployment — but on the whole these have the look of comfortable people, well settled and problem‐free.
In this paper analysis is made of an important development in British industrial relations; the extension of collective bargaining to include managerial level employees. The…
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In this paper analysis is made of an important development in British industrial relations; the extension of collective bargaining to include managerial level employees. The questions posed include those such as: Why are managers increasingly joining unions? What kind of union are they attracted to? How do managers behave as trade unionists and how do employers react to the development of managerial unionism on their virgin territory? In suggesting answers to such topical questions, it is argued that although some existing unions are becoming more ambitious in recruitment, managers themselves are now interested in organizing collectively to defend their employment status and declining pay differentials. It is noted that George Bain's explanation of white collar union growth is also applicable to the development of managerial unionization, and that managers' unionism is spreading from the public to the private sector, although managers may, however, have reservations about some manifestations of aggressive trade unionism. But, despite their prevailing attitudes, managers can be militant themselves and may offer a more profound challenge to employers' prerogatives than more traditional unions. It is concluded that employers may try to undermine incipient managers' unions but that in the long term these attempts are doomed to failure not least because they will be countered by public policy.
This research study compares women elementary school teachers who have and have not applied for promotion. The variables considered include degree of family responsibilities, and…
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This research study compares women elementary school teachers who have and have not applied for promotion. The variables considered include degree of family responsibilities, and extent of commitment to the roles played both inside and outside the home. A picture of the women applicant for promotion emerges. While she is as likely as other women teachers to follow the traditional marriage with children pattern, she does take a markedly different approach to her home life and responsibilities there.
L.F. NEAL and ANDREW ROBERTSON
This article is based on a chapter in a recently published book, “The Manager's Guide to Industrial Relations”, by L. F. Neal and Andrew Robertson (George Allen & Unwin, 25s.).
Clive Bingley, Edwin Fleming and Sarah Lawson
I DON'T KNOW whether you are yet straight in your minds about the present location of the various parts of my erstwhile, present and embryonic business empires, but it will…
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I DON'T KNOW whether you are yet straight in your minds about the present location of the various parts of my erstwhile, present and embryonic business empires, but it will certainly clear my mind of confusion if I try to set it down here once and for all—and you are welcome to photocopy it (without comeback) for the edification of your colleagues!
The subject I have been asked to speak to is EEC Social Policy so before examining what the EEC is doing in the social field, perhaps I should just outline its principal…
The Corporate Report is the title of a discussion paper recently published by the Accountant's Standards Steering Committee. As custodians of our business information systems, the…
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The Corporate Report is the title of a discussion paper recently published by the Accountant's Standards Steering Committee. As custodians of our business information systems, the accountants have prepared a most significant report. They have joined us in highlighting the need for better communication of information amongst the participants in industry and commerce, and in advocating the adoption of a system based on the concept of added value, for which we have been pressing since August 1973.
It is common to hear it said that the most important benefits yielded by vocational training and organizational development programmes cannot be assessed because they are too…
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It is common to hear it said that the most important benefits yielded by vocational training and organizational development programmes cannot be assessed because they are too ‘intangible’. The ‘demand’ for them is in itself sufficient indication of their value. Unfortunately, as economists such as Thurow have, only too belatedly recognized, the value of a certificate to an individual is a very different thing from the value of the knowledge to the acquisition of which the certificate testifies. Most school pupils, parents, and teachers believe that, while it is very important to pass examinations, the value of what is learned at school is minimal. Their beliefs are confirmed by the studies of Berg, Jencks and Raven. Because of the social functions of educational qualifications, teachers and pupils attend to the goals which are assessed. Because the goals which are easiest to assess are not those which they believe to be most important, teachers and pupils fail to attend to the goals which they actually believe to be most important. Had these teachers and students spent their time working toward the most important goals, the students' life chances, and the teachers' own reputation, would have been jeopardized.
Kenneth J. Smith, Patricia L. Derrick and Michael R. Koval
Considerable progress has been made over the past 20 years toward the construction of a global stress paradigm for accountants in the workplace. Over this time period, a number of…
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Considerable progress has been made over the past 20 years toward the construction of a global stress paradigm for accountants in the workplace. Over this time period, a number of antecedents and consequences of personal and organizational stress have been identified and empirically verified. These efforts have provided the foundation for future investigations, which will likely provide additional guidance to those seeking to implement strategies aimed at enhancing individual well-being and organizational efficiency. This chapter synthesizes the findings of these studies to construct a model of the stress dynamic among accountants aimed at guiding future efforts designed to refine our understanding of this critical phenomenon.
Alexandra L. Ferrentino, Meghan L. Maliga, Richard A. Bernardi and Susan M. Bosco
This research provides accounting-ethics authors and administrators with a benchmark for accounting-ethics research. While Bernardi and Bean (2010) considered publications in…
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This research provides accounting-ethics authors and administrators with a benchmark for accounting-ethics research. While Bernardi and Bean (2010) considered publications in business-ethics and accounting’s top-40 journals this study considers research in eight accounting-ethics and public-interest journals, as well as, 34 business-ethics journals. We analyzed the contents of our 42 journals for the 25-year period between 1991 through 2015. This research documents the continued growth (Bernardi & Bean, 2007) of accounting-ethics research in both accounting-ethics and business-ethics journals. We provide data on the top-10 ethics authors in each doctoral year group, the top-50 ethics authors over the most recent 10, 20, and 25 years, and a distribution among ethics scholars for these periods. For the 25-year timeframe, our data indicate that only 665 (274) of the 5,125 accounting PhDs/DBAs (13.0% and 5.4% respectively) in Canada and the United States had authored or co-authored one (more than one) ethics article.