IT MUST BE 10 years since I first heard Dr. Revans lecture. He was in as much demand then, as he is now, to grace those symbolic occasions when management is exhorted about…
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IT MUST BE 10 years since I first heard Dr. Revans lecture. He was in as much demand then, as he is now, to grace those symbolic occasions when management is exhorted about business education. I was an apprentice of sorts myself at the time and I remember the gist of his message very well: that management education was a good thing and that there should be more of it. Hoping to ingratiate myself with speaker and audience—a familiar situation in conference questions—I asked one, and was duly, and perhaps rightly, slapped down.
“Europe has never existed” according to Jean Monnet, quoted in The New Europeans (1). “It is not the addition of national sovereignities in a conclave which creates an entity. One…
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“Europe has never existed” according to Jean Monnet, quoted in The New Europeans (1). “It is not the addition of national sovereignities in a conclave which creates an entity. One must genuinely create Europe.” This observation was a political one but it indicates also the difficulty of identifying developments in Europe as a whole. Some food service cohesion may be anticipated through European agencies. For example, the 18 member countries of the Council of Europe are being asked to adopt clean food rules (2) for restaurants as well as shops and markets. In considering food service in the European context, I emphasise at the outset, however, that I can only refer to trends of which I know. Equally that I must ignore many parts of Europe from ignorance or where development of hotels and food service seem to me less significant.
Motivation is central to management. Previous work and practice has been based on the work of Maslow and Herzberg. This approach has not always been successful. A new theory, the…
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Motivation is central to management. Previous work and practice has been based on the work of Maslow and Herzberg. This approach has not always been successful. A new theory, the social action theory of behaviour, is emerging. It argues that the understanding of behaviour needs to be expanded beyond an understanding of inner psychological needs to an understanding of the wider social setting in which behaviour takes place. Hence the task of managers is to understand what their workers, subordinates and even superiors actually think of themselves and their situation, what they want, and recognise the interpretation that they place on their work.
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Susan M. Dobson and John E.T. Shorrock
Management thinking on the relationship between a business enterprise and its external environment has evolved in a number of ways over the last hundred years. At each stage, the…
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Management thinking on the relationship between a business enterprise and its external environment has evolved in a number of ways over the last hundred years. At each stage, the concept of the company has been determined by the socio‐economic circumstances in which managers find themselves.
A conference can range from good to bad. It can be well or poorly organized, comfortably or indifferently housed, a profitable or wasted use of time. If conferences were rated…
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A conference can range from good to bad. It can be well or poorly organized, comfortably or indifferently housed, a profitable or wasted use of time. If conferences were rated like hotels and stars indicated their merit, the one held in Munich at the end of October should be awarded the maximum number.
The Management College at Henley was founded in 1946. It was established under the name “Administrative Staff College”. At that time this was an appropriate title because…
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The Management College at Henley was founded in 1946. It was established under the name “Administrative Staff College”. At that time this was an appropriate title because administration was defined as the highest form of management. Over the years, it has become known as Henley. The College is the longest established management school in Europe and the seed‐bed for many developments in management education in the U.K. and the rest of the world. Many thousands of senior managers from industry, commerce, financial institutions and the public service and from all over the world have attended Henley courses.
Joseph Z Szendi, Zabihollah Rezaee and Connie Shum
This research study examined accounting and business administration education curricula at foreign universities and tested a model for measuring the level of management technology…
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This research study examined accounting and business administration education curricula at foreign universities and tested a model for measuring the level of management technology attained by a country. The primary focus of this research was the role of accounting and business education as input for a measurement model designed to aid in assessing the potential for the transfer of management technology. A factor analysis‐based technometric model to measure a country's degree of management technology sophistication was utilised. The model placed newly industrialised countries including Korea, India, China, Brazil, and Mexico at the top of the scale even though these countries do not have the highest Gross National Product (GNP) per capita. These results suggest that per capita GNP may not be a reasonable indicator of accounting and management technological potential, and that the technometric model utilised in this study may provide more accurate information regarding the transfer of accounting and management technology.
This Register of Current Research in Britain in the field of marketing has been compiled from the response to a request for such information made to educational institutes. It is…
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This Register of Current Research in Britain in the field of marketing has been compiled from the response to a request for such information made to educational institutes. It is intended to publish amendments and additions at regular intervals in this journal. Each issue will contain up‐dating material, and the complete register will be published each year. The present issue contains the first such up‐dating.
The introduction of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) and the long‐term development of Computer Integrated Manufacture (CIM) present challenges to those engineers and…
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The introduction of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) and the long‐term development of Computer Integrated Manufacture (CIM) present challenges to those engineers and managers who must implement them and those who must manage the total manufacturing system. Basic ideas in management development are reviewed. A systems model is contrasted with one based on the central idea of a “champion of change”. The former addresses the complex inter‐relationships that exist between teams involved in a number of concurrent development projects and the necessary diffusion of learning throughout the organisation, but ignores power relationships and individual attributes of company staff. The latter has considerable strengths as a model for producing action but may present problems in the context of traditional UK companies. The management education of engineers is commented on, emphasising the distinction between the basic skills needed to operate as an engineer in a company and the long‐term development necessary to create the “technological champion”.
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In this section the different types of information source which constitute the management literature are allocated to categories according to their broad function. Within the four…
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In this section the different types of information source which constitute the management literature are allocated to categories according to their broad function. Within the four categories — tertiary, secondary and primary sources and research in progress, each type of information source will be looked at in terms of the information it supplies and the role it can play in literature searching.