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In recent years the Manpower Services Commission (MSC), through its Training Services Division (TSD), has considerably extended its training operations for clerical and commercial staff. The rapid growth of office technology and its increasing impact on office functions and office skills led TSD to recognise this field as one of the major priority areas of its operating plan for the years 1980–81. As a result a project was launched aiming to:

In recent years the task of managing human resources has become increasingly complex and demanding. Areas such as equal employment opportunities, employment protection, industrial relations, health and safety regulations and manpower planning in a highly unstable economy imposed new responsibilities on those who manage human resources. Consequently, personnel activities have become one of the central concerns of the organisation, subject to pressures from government, employees, trade unions, employers' associations and society at large.

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.