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Publication date: 1 June 1985

The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains…

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The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains features to help the reader to retrieve relevant literature from MCB University Press' considerable output. Each entry within has been indexed according to author(s) and the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus. The latter thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid retrieval. Each article or book is assigned its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. This Volume indexes 29 journals indicating the depth, coverage and expansion of MCB's portfolio.

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Management Decision, vol. 23 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0025-1747

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Publication date: 1 March 1982

Gordon Wills

It is a familiar enough concept in the teaching of management that the business organisation is an open system, operating in an environment susceptible of analysis. The same logic…

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It is a familiar enough concept in the teaching of management that the business organisation is an open system, operating in an environment susceptible of analysis. The same logic can be applied to the business schools which thus teach. I accordingly have attempted to review in this article what have seemed to be the most critical pieces of public or environmental advices coming our way. Members of the advising environmental community have ranged from the National Economic Development Council and Lord Franks in the early sixties to Nancy Foy and the European Foundation for Management and Development in the late seventies. In between there have been a million suggestions by users, be they company management development advisers or programme participants. Finally, of course, there have been competitive activities by schools other than the one in which we find ourselves. They do not offer verbal advice; rather they demonstrate, should we care to observe carefully, how goals similar if not always identical to our own might be achieved. Accordingly, this discussion will not examine what we have done at Cranfield but only what I believe we can perceive other schools doing elsewhere.

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Management Decision, vol. 20 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0025-1747

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Publication date: 1 November 1984

R. Talpaert

There is an urgent need to relax the link between work and organisation, to bring about a social renewal in which the key word is participation, and the key figure a certain type…

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There is an urgent need to relax the link between work and organisation, to bring about a social renewal in which the key word is participation, and the key figure a certain type of manager.

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Industrial Management & Data Systems, vol. 84 no. 11/12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-5577

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Publication date: 1 January 1983

Gordon Wills

What's Going on at Buckingham? Is it rash or rational? Crazy or calculated? The decision to launch an entirely independent, new type of management school at university level may…

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What's Going on at Buckingham? Is it rash or rational? Crazy or calculated? The decision to launch an entirely independent, new type of management school at university level may seem more than a shade imprudent, especially in today's uncertain economic climate. Yet the Management Centre from Buckingham (UMCB), to be launched shortly with senior staff from existing university schools and myself as Principal, is just such a venture. We will be going into business in the autumn with Professor Reg Revans as our President.

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Journal of Management Development, vol. 2 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0262-1711

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Publication date: 1 May 1983

Keith Howard

It is generally accepted that three factors in combination determine a country's potential output. Two of these are employable labour and the investment in tools and equipment…

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It is generally accepted that three factors in combination determine a country's potential output. Two of these are employable labour and the investment in tools and equipment which labour uses in the production process. It is, however, evident that even though two countries may have the same number of employable persons and capital stock it is quite probable that potential output will differ appreciably. This is primarily due to the fact that the characteristics of the labour and capital resources will differ, as will the way in which they are managed. Thus employee skills may on average vary from country to country as may the quality of equipment. Furthermore the systems operative in one country may in general be more efficient than those to be found in another. All these aspects, sometimes described as “the level of technology”, the third factor, are to do with the extent to which inputs are efficiently converted into outputs. Very much key to this transformation process is the quality of management itself.

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Industrial Management & Data Systems, vol. 83 no. 5/6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-5577

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Publication date: 1 February 1993

Gordon Wills

Posits that every enterprise must institutionalize its workplacelearning systems and opportunities in such a way that it radiates whatit has already achieved and from this moves…

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Posits that every enterprise must institutionalize its workplace learning systems and opportunities in such a way that it radiates what it has already achieved and from this moves on to realize its full potential – in short, the enterprise itself is the key. Examines in successive chapters: the individual manager and questioning insights (Q); the major systems which the enterprise uses to capture and structure its learning; a SWOT analysis of the enterprise′s total learning; action learning, its contribution to the achievement of enterprise growth, and the role of programmed knowledge (P); the Enterprise School of Management (ESM) as a phoenix of enlightenment and effectiveness rising from the ashes of traditional, less effective management training initiatives; and, finally, the practical realization of the action learning dream, as evidenced by emerging examples of successful and profitable implementation worldwide. Concludes with a selection of pertinent abstracts.

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Journal of Management Development, vol. 12 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0262-1711

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Publication date: 1 March 1981

Andre Van Beylen

In the current society, characterised by frequently occurr‐ing rapid and tumultuous changes, unforeseen and impossible to forecast, there is a need for bright, effective and…

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In the current society, characterised by frequently occurr‐ing rapid and tumultuous changes, unforeseen and impossible to forecast, there is a need for bright, effective and flexible managers. Increasing social complexity emphasises the necessity for a responsible decision‐making process. So many people are now concerned with this process that one can no longer be sure that it will develop appropriately. The responsibility of the decision will increasingly depend upon a small number of persons concerned.

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Education + Training, vol. 23 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 April 1981

Gordon Wills

Describes how one university school applied the principles and practices of marketing to short course activities between 1975 and 1979. Reveals that the application afforded good…

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Describes how one university school applied the principles and practices of marketing to short course activities between 1975 and 1979. Reveals that the application afforded good commercial success.

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European Journal of Marketing, vol. 15 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0566

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Publication date: 1 March 1984

Roger Talpaert

According to Herbert Simon—the first and only Nobel prize winner in the area of management studies—the human mind cannot function on more than a few consciously considered…

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According to Herbert Simon—the first and only Nobel prize winner in the area of management studies—the human mind cannot function on more than a few consciously considered informations at the same time. What this means is that our thinking, our decisions and action are in fact based on a few actively considered informations, which happen to be around. A large number of assumptions, convictions and impressions, which are unconsciously taken into account, are also determinant, although they remain unquestioned. There is nothing wrong with this. We could hardly function otherwise, especially when we have to act under pressure of time. But there is an obvious danger: the world seems to change more quickly than it used to (and this is an understatement), and the risk is that some of these unquestioned (because unconscious) assumptions on which we act are no longer true. Since human nature tends to avoid the threat of change we may persuade ourselves to select for conscious consideration only the “safe” informations, those which are not likely to change, however marginal they may be. This is what the French scholar Louis Armand called “Entrer dans I'avenir à reculons”.

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Management Decision, vol. 22 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0025-1747

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Publication date: 13 June 2016

Ann Hallyburton

The purpose of this paper is to examine healthcare professionals’ own health literacy through the lenses of information behavior and evidence-based practice. These practitioners’…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine healthcare professionals’ own health literacy through the lenses of information behavior and evidence-based practice. These practitioners’ health information literacy is critical to client care.

Design/methodology/approach

This conceptual paper applies general and professional-specific models of information behavior and issues of bias to methods in which healthcare practitioners seek, evaluate and use research information within professional practice.

Findings

Case examples from library, medical and the broader healthcare literature are used to explore ways in which care professionals’ information behaviors align with or deviate from information behavior models and the role of different types of bias in their information behavior. Adaption of evidence-based practice precepts, already familiar to healthcare professionals, is proposed as a method to improve practitioners’ health information literacy.

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Explorations of “health literacy” have primarily focused on healthcare consumers’ interactions with basic health information and services. The health literacy (and health information literacy) of care practitioners has received much less attention. By gaining a greater understanding of how information behaviors intersect with healthcare practitioners’ own health literacy, the librarians and educators who serve future and current care professionals can offer more informed information literacy instruction, enabling practitioners to provide improved patient care.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 44 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0090-7324

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