Controversy does little to promote management's understanding of its role in supervising people. Those who are or would be managers need to be flexible and adaptable, and understand that though much is known about management and leadership, laws have not been developed; principles have exceptions,...

A questionnaire sent to facilitators of 12 engineering companies and thence distributed to operational blue‐collar circles resulted in a 68 per cent response rate and established that the expectations, their realisation, the benefits, training, co‐operation and participation of all parties...

Although many studies contend that there are few advantages to using participation among organisation members, consideration should be given to the contingency approach to participation. The management practitioner should address such issues as value attributed to participation by employees,...

If the management of the civil service is to undergo a real (rather than cosmetic) improvement, action will be needed to generate a major cultural transformation in Whitehall. A sensible strategy would be to develop a distinctive organisation development model appropriate for public sector...

The rapid emergence of the microelectronics revolution has led to an upsurge of new business enterprises in the information technology field. The entrepreneurial skills required to turn a take‐off venture into a successful business enterprise are substantially different from those required to...

It has been shown that the Hersey and Blanchard situational leadership model suffers from fundamental flaws since it violates three logical principles — consistency, continuity and conformity. If the model is corrected to avoid this violation, allowing smooth progression of leader as parent...

Care should be taken by companies investing in any foreign country (particularly a country new to industry) to measure the preferred style of leadership of the workforce, and to get that style observed by the indigenous work groups and by those workers supplied by the expatriate manager; if this...

It was Weber's belief that bureaucracy and formalisation were the best methods of creating and maintaining a viable political structure independent of its leadership. The need for political stability and the necessity of performance efficiency in a traditional society plagued with inefficiency...

Second part of a two‐part article. Full description of the Promco case study (see also LODJ, Vol. 6 No. 2).

By reorienting the study of work and leisure to a more sensitised approach, wherein “common‐sense” understandings of actors may be the grounding for scientific understanding, it may be possible to discover how these actors construct, modify and change their meanings regarding work and...