The Invergordon Smelter. A case study in management
Details:
- Author(s) Drummond, Gordon
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1977
- Pages 158pp
- Publisher Hutchinson Benham
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee management inc control
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
- Name Management practices
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of businesses
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Written by a long serving manager of British Aluminium, latterly managing director of the firm's Primary Division and therefore closely involved in the [ultimately unsuccessful] project to build and subsequently manage the Invergordon Smelter. Has chapters: 'Construction of the Smelter'; 'The aluminium industry'; 'Planning the management of the Smelter'; 'Development of industrial relations policy'; 'Management philosophy'; 'Manpower planning'; 'Personnel recruitment'; 'Plant commissioning'; 'Initial operating phase'; 'Completion and consolidation'; 'With hindsight'