Presents a personal view from a business school perspective on some of the issues in an era of rapid change and internationalization of business, facing management development – defined here as programmes and activities specifically provided to enhance the knowledge, abilities and achievements...

Discusses management education and development – and in particular the role of business schools. Outlines some personal views on how and why business schools have evolved, and how they will do so in the future. Offers a simple, general model to describe evolution to date and to set the scene...

Some factors which relate to manpower planning procedures will be examined briefly in the context of the selection, placement and retention of manual production workers. The research studies cited for this purpose will be confined to those of which the author has first hand knowledge.

This paper summarises some of the points arising from a recent study of developments in mass production systems. The study conducted during 1972 and 1973, was concerned with engineering mass production, in particular the mass production of relatively complex discrete items such as domestic...

An operating system utilises resources to convert inputs into outputs in the form of goods or services. Conventionally, operations management is defined as the task of designing, establishing, planning, running, controlling, maintaining and improving such systems. As the output of such systems...

Some aspects are considered of the relationships between technology and work. The use of new technologies in enterprises is discussed, and the nature and circumstances of the work of people for these enterprises. Such matters have been the subject of attention over many years. Thus some simple...