What is your boss reading?

Article Abstract:

Business consultants who have written books about how to run a successful business rarely talk about health and safety. Sir John Harvey-Jones is an exception and he says that he always asks a company about its health and safety record. Michael Hammer talks about business re-engineering but he does not suggest that companies upgrade their safety management procedures. The consultants advocate risk taking and making changes and this can be interpreted as applying to health and safety as well as business practice.

Practice, Criticism and interpretation, Business consultants, Management consultants, Management training

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What is your boss reading?

Article Abstract:

The issue of safety is covered in considerable detail by textbooks for supervisors. R. Cartwright's 'Managing Operations: A Competence Approach to Supervisory Management,' for example, has a section called 'Maintaining a Safe Workplace' and also outlines the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. In contrast, textbooks aimed at senior managers do not deal with safety at all. MBA courses do not teach health and safety, and textbooks for MBA students reflect this.

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What is your boss reading?

Article Abstract:

A survey suggests that modern-day managers do not concern themselves with health and safety issues in the workplace. Management literature such as reference items The Big Small Business Guide and The Essential Manager's Manual do not include a significant amount on health and safety, in spite of the subject's relative importance.

Safety and security measures

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