Understanding how to manage the boss requires an awareness of the different types of bosses, their personality and their management styles. Describes six different types of manager: the bureaucrat, the autocrat, the wheeler‐dealer, the laissez‐faire manager, the reluctant manager, and the...

Existing safety management methods have not had the anticipated impact of reducing accident rates at work. This is an introduction to the new behaviour based approach to safety management and quality improvement

There is a discernible trend for organizations to be moving away from directive and authoritarian management styles, towards a more participative approach, which involves subordinates in taking more responsibility. This is linked to a move from bureaucratic role cultures to a more integrated...

Goal setting and feedback techniques have previously been used to improve safety behaviour. Describes a pilot study of the application of a behaviour‐based quality improvement process in a continuous process production plant with a particular focus on certain aspects of the organizational...

The management development adviser has a crucial role in ensuring that geographical mobility retains status, and that the organisation recognises, and makes adequate provision for, its pitfalls. A survey of managers from more than 50 British organisations suggests that managers need to feel that...