Surveying evidence from Australian Newspaper References 1991-93 that the five trusts be applied to ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
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This Website is specialised to help you come to terms with the market place globalising into an information age.
Australian examples have been used.
Part of this research was done as a Thesis for the Post-Graduate qualification GDAIE from Deakin University for myself.
After the Thesis had been excepted, I developed more and more data to varify the notion that 5 different trusts were being applied to change companies culture.
To make sense of the complexity of what top Managers were saying should be used in the commerical world.
A new taxonomy was evolved to classify the fairly amorophous and confusing information mass that arose from unhashed cuttings appearing in local Australian newspapers and journals.
The contextual setting of the research was to bring my own company John D.Hughes and Associates Pty Ltd, ABN and ACN. out of the industrial age and to sort the items in terms of culture trusts rather than index them under strict library protocol.
Since 1993, 1994, 1995 the life cycle of the 5 trusts as found to be quite robust.
Perhaps the most enduring contributions Organisational Development (OD) has made is basing change on research into the organisation's needs and culture.(CCH 1993 1)
Questions about the complexity of managers' cultural, technical and mental/emotional biases used in the commercial world by Australians became evident during action research to reengineer a commercial organisation's management information system ( MIS).(2)
The Information Problem
The Australian and Melbourne Age newpapers 1991-93 have a policy of devoting space to reports on processes, product and ideas which have been or might be applied to restructure organisational development.
With knowledge doubling approximately every 20 months (Odgen 1993), the future is coming quickly and changing rapidly. He suggests when we enter a new environment the quantity of new information can evoke not only change but transformation.
Information increased in the CCH Training Manual by circa 300 new terms and a 13 page glossary over 9 months this year (1993).
Within a globalisation of knowledge context, the question is to what extent resemblances of evolving industrial culture actually exist and what importance is to be attached to them. es of
Frank Ogden suggests (1993) that as the market place globalizes in an information age environment, so do cultures of those countries participating in the market place. Odgen (1988) posits economic and cultural transfers are similar to genetic transfers in the organic world.
Organisational Restraints.
Our organisation must continue to seek change for its MIS collection, preservation and use to form training product.
The 1993 MIS budget does not plan for staff increases.
The organisation's MIS budget cash is strapped by a perceived need to update four computers and three printers and get the MIS system online ready for a franchising operation.
With this end-in-view, any organisational development should enable fit to use more rapid work culture transfers, as specified from time to time, to occur.
At the same time, OD must develop the MIS project to remain robust enough to permit its format to succeed in the next planned round of a world of continual technological revolutions.
The current model used for performance deficiency analysis is shown as Appendix 2.
One area where performance is prevented is because our MIS collected over 400 items (1991-93): potentially useful for culture change for OD. These items, from local newspapers and journals, are held as unhashed cuttings.
They are a fairly amorphous confusing information mass.
It is more likely than not the mass may double this year.
Past OD thinking was it valuable for internal use to be able to revisit an ever-increasing mass on information.
The unhashed cutting version was tolerable for internal use; but, doubt of cost benefit appears where copyright term payments added. Computer abstracts of OD information could be made accessible to off site on line to external users, such as franchisees.
But the cost equivalent of many hours of abstracting, say, on the Dewey system, for a trained librarian's time could not be supported this year. Wishing to use conventions based on CCH's 300 new terms, would make the task even more difficult.
The contextual setting of the research proposal
Our organisation is endeavoring to come out of the industrial age. It is not within the scope of this paper to defend trust selection against industrial age thinking.
It has been suggested (Odgen 1993) that industrial age thinking needs to reverse its sanctions in a communications age environment.
The need is to review fitness for use of OD topics buried in the mass.
It is proposed to attempt to sort these items in terms of culture trusts rather than index under strict library protocols.
Syncretism suggests use could be made of the "five trusts" to give a transformation to five sorting headings. The five trusts were verified as being in actual existence in a sample of worker's views. (Ref. first section of this paper).
The five trusts chosen match our stakeholder's OD current (1993-4) concerns.
In industrial age contextual settings, there may well be organisational climates which label such trusts as oppressive to some of the stakeholders.
It must be understood there is nothing sacrosanct proposed by the current selection of these examples. They are not intended to be prescriptive for others. Others persons may wish to follow the proposal by testing the effectiveness of classification using their own selection of groups of trusts.
In principle at least, as a further stage, it is open to explore the possibility that some the new CCH terms ,( or future OD terms yet to arise), would be equated to the five trusts taxonomy.
It is posited work trusts have a life cycle. Were the items entered in publication date order; it may be able to plot the time to rise and/or fall of the five trusts may shown.
Guessed at advantages within the contextual setting.
The first advantage is that such a proposal helps to "demythologize" OD classification. Hence, OD training may have simpler more "natural" expression for end users.
This is a useful notion within the culture of our franchisees.
The second advantage is it holds promise that it may be simple enough to empower semi-skilled technicians to feel comfortable in doing the equivalent of part of the job of a professional librarian person.
A third possible advantage, (yet to be explored) is that the MIS OD machine searchable system might evolve from a tight specific word searching fit mode to a more user friendly mode.
It is conceivable that some of the above mentioned 300 new "training jargon" words expressing OD efforts could be transformed into simpler language terms by using one or more of the five trusts.
Methodology.
The method as concept is to provide a culturally based pathway to map a "table of invention" for OD use based on trust(s) of person / technology context (milieu) (3).
The author's subjective feelings from many oversea teaching visits are that cross cultural values may find expression as common trusts. It is outside the scope of the present paper to argue this notion.
Preliminary reading showed author(s) often overtly express his/her values clearly as being for or against one of the five main trust values.
At times, clear expression of two trust values are found.
The method used in the proposed documentation first cites the reference used. This helps MIS computer searching. If the title is not clear, a brief summary of content is made. The summary preferred uses CCH glossary terms.
To support the trust classification choice, any overt key phrase pointing towards or away from the trust value is noted. In one or two items, the value is clearly covert and noted. Where trust can only be guessed at, it is rated as indeterminate.
Rating for COLUMNS on a "trust rating scale" are:
+1 = specific support of trust
0 = indeterminate
-1 = Specific non support of trust
ROWS of trust classification are as Figure 1.
(Where does trust hold?)
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Interest as vested as vested an Input an output
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Reproducibility.
It seems that reproducibility of a trust rating is considered to be likely to be achievable by those technicians in the workforce without special library training.
The reason for this belief is that during the rating allocation, the author "sounded" proposed ratings against a 21 year assistant's viewpoint. The assistant chosen had one year of science training at a university background with one year marketing work experience.
In nearly every case, there was a rapid prima facie straight agreement on the rating (+, 0, - ).
References
1. CCH Australian & New Zealand Training & Development Management Manual CCH 1992 p. 35,791
2. Hughes J.D. EEE708 second Draft proposal
Reengineering for a comparable advantage? 6 April 1993.
3. Kemmis S & McTaggart The Action Research Planner Third Edition. Pub. Deakin Uni. 1988 pp.92-93
DISCLAIMER:
The persons in the following references cited have not been surveyed. Hence ratings should be treated as hearsay. Any "trust" rating given by the author in this example matrix must not be taken as implying a person(s) or organisation cited does, in fact, hold/not hold the value stated at the date of this paper.
1991-93 references cited to construct this trust survey.
(Australian Newspaper cited as AUS)
(Melbourne Age Newspaper cited as AGE.
A. Technology as trust
26. Brock B. Future depends on leading edge cash AUS 16/04/91 p.26
$US 1.9 billion federal project to be spent to improve super computers. Predicted to generate $US 10 billion by end of century. Cray revenues $ US 1 billion/year. Japanese companies (Fujitsu, Hitachi & NEC have revenues $US 17 to 45 billion/year.
H. Striner view - Spending on new knowledge probably brings more of a return for your investment than any other expenditure.
62. McIntosh T. Affirmative action to break down classroom gender barriers. Role-model bureaucrat paves way for girls. AUS, 28/5/91, p. 29. Breaking down the technology barriers confronting girls is becoming a priority for many educators. Mrs. Noila Berglund, NSW DG of school ed: .... is committed to ensuring that all girls, from kindergarten level through senior secondary are given encouragement and opportunities they need to become 100% computer literate for next century's technology society. "I have a very strong feeling that by the year 2010, eductiron, society and industry will demand IT across all frontiers".
7. Fairall, J. Protection of Property Decade's Biggest Issue AUS. 25/06/91 p.30
L. James - ...the IT industry will continue to expand at double-digit rates, even if the economy continues to grow sluggishly. ...in many instances, if companies don't computerize they don't have a business or a product. ...a million instructions per second...cost $US 50,000 in 1985 versus $US 1000 last year (1990).
10. Brock, B. Microsoft Steals March on Competitors With New DOS AUS. 06/07/91 p.23
Users...want improved software that works on the hardware they have got now and which will not require them to spend more money for new computers to run the latest software.
9. Howard, R. Artificial Intelligence: AUS 06/09/91 p.34
...(AI)...has been vastly oversold and will never really succeed.
6. Richardson, N. Survey Criticises Lack of Technical Qualifications; Training - The Key to Building Recovery AUS. 19/09/91 p.4
R. Gyles QC - ...most workers saw multi-skilling as making their job more cost-effective. The majority of managers gave less union power top priority when they considered how to make their job better.
13. Moeller, S. Making an Impression; Service Puts Managers to Test AUS. 26/10/91 p.17
The management competency development program uses.....a workbook and computer software. Reference to the norms...gave an indication of how managers stacked up against others.
57. Steele C., An electrifying age for libraries, AUS, 20/11/91 p. 23. Spiralling serial inflation, notably fuelling the profits of the large publishers - the Elsevier takeover of Pergamon for $US765 million ($980 million), now apparently results in control of 30 percent of America's reserch library intake - has meant that most of the leading university libraries are facing high inflation for serials, especially in science and law. Who cotnrols what goes into electronic data sources will be crucial. Librarians and teachers are already seeing students who believe on-line address is the only "true" source of data, ignoring hundreds of relevant books on a topic!
2. Maslen, G. Study Now is as Easy as ABC
AGE, 18/01/92
Prof. K. McKinnon - believes the ABC's production costs on open learning are prohibitly expensive and the project will collapse after its two years trial.
Prof. Walker - TV has achieved some notable successes in promoting ideas but less success in provoking thought.
28. Horey J. HP chiefs tip: be nothing but the best
AUS. 27/04/93 p. 27
W.P. Roelandts: It would take 10 years for organisations to move to the co-operative computing model....... identified 4 groups: the early are doctors, the early majority, the late movers and the laggards..... the second group makes up 60% of HP's business, the third group makes up 5 - 10% of the business. Re-engineering could provide a massive payback.... some companies could get as much as a 10-fold improvement in productivity.....more and more ....developing a partnership with the customer. He rejects terms such as the virtual corporation to describe new companies that outsource everything but their core business. Information systems are a critical component in managing a company which outsources. Client server and open systems are important parts of these new-style company systems ...prefers term... co-operative computing to client server.
30. OOPS! More programmers need to get the right stuff. Enter object-oriented programming - the true evolution from third generation languages. AUS 08/06/93 p.36.
Ian Kinns....to make the transition, he recommended training and "a lot of background reading".
Steve Baker: The shortage is for people who have been doing it for more than 6 months.
Adam Winkelman: ...graduates without baggage from commercial programming made the best practitioners: "some Cobal programmers couldn't make the transition. For others, it will take a year".
In object-oriented programming (OOP) the dominant language is C. For people from a conventional programming background, it requires a significant change in mindset.
46. Talks aim to bridge the knowledge gap, AUS 15/6/93 p. 39. Mr Hugh Bathurst MD, of At A Glance, offering workshops to correct: the explosive growth in computer supply industry has left behind users application knowledge.
48. Thorp D. PC's appeal leaves writer Robyn cold, AUS 15/6/93 p. 41. Mr Robyn Williams presenter of ABC Science Show, sees PC's as an unncessary complication - favours rust ridden typewriter.
29. Forester T. Potential of IT to transform business
Process Innovation: Re-engineering Work Through Information Technology McGraw Hill Australia. AUS
06/07/93 p. 37. The primary enablers of change in organisations are technology and organisational/human factors.
31. Bajak F. Radio days of the Internet have arrived. AUS 06/07/93, P. 37.
The Internet is a long way from offering the computer shy easy access to the wealth of information the technically adept can extract. Knowledge robots, the resource discovery tools of tomorrow will be dispatched across networks with orders to bring back specified information.
33. Marris S. When seeing is believing. AUS 06/07/93 p. 30. Dr. Bob Johnson, the managing director of MAPTEK, a developer of 3D computer graphics for science and industry, says visualisation has become critical in controlling the "data explosion". Our brain is better attuned to looking at a 3D object, especially when lookin at a complex shape. Dr Abbott said.
1. Walker D. In future, work will be a state of mind Melbourne Age 10/07/93 p.15
Telecom replaces human voices with machine.
Prof. R. Blandy (cit.) Inquisitive minds ....valued.
Our skilled workers are some of the cheapest in the world.
Art, accountancy and even law degrees no longer a meal ticket.
70. Reid D. Few frigtened by technofear, AUS 19/10/93, p.
32. Australians are more technically literate than Americans, a recent survey commissioned by Dell Computers has found. The survey shows that 55 percent of all American are "technophobic" to some degree, compared with 30 per cent of Australians.
Mr Herrick, Director, Dell, in Australia said: A key finding from our study was that people tend to fit into one of several categories based on how they use computers and relate to or resist, learning new technologies.
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B. Trust in persons using it.
56. Taylor L. Long-term jobless to stay high: Beazley AUS 24/5/93 p. 1
Long-term unemployment would not drop to pre-recession levels - under 300,000 - until the end of the century - Mr Beazley. He pointed to statistics that during the recession employment in businesses employing fewer than 20 people grew by 2.5 per cent and said the trend meant the emphasis on a skilled workforce was even more important.
62. McIntosh T. Affirmative action to break down classroom gender barriers. Role-model bureaucrat paves way for girls. AUS, 28/5/91, p. 29. Breaking down the technology barriers confronting girls is becoming a priority for many educators. Mrs. Noila Berglund, NSW DG of school ed: .... is committed to ensuring that all girls, from kindergarten level through senior secondary are given encouragement and opportunities they need to become 100% computer literate for next century's technology society. "I have a very strong feeling that by the year 2010, eductiron, society and industry will demand IT across all frontiers".
34. Broinowski A. Lessons to be learned in our own backyard. AUS 23/06/93. p. 18
A set of cultural factors related to efficiency, which inlcude such things as the capacity to work well in groups, attention to details like quality, packaging, presentati on, timing and consumer needs and willingness to look ahead and plan for the future.
Most significantly, if we are talking about learning from Asia, an emphasis on education and respect for learning.
37. Rance, C. Exploring the homely rather than Homeric qualities of leadership. AUS 26/06/93, Employment p. 1
Author Alistair Mant identified intellectual capability, the capacity to make organisational and tasks appear comprehensible and coherent to others, the ability to make things happen through inter-personal relationships, motivation, dedication and humanity as essential attributes of successful leaders.
55. Scott J. Concern on right to modify software for fresh sales, Lawyer warns program developers on copyright.
AUS, 27.7.93 p. 16. Program developers who assign copyright in their programs to customers have been warned to proceed cautiously by a Mebourne computer lawyer. Once copyright has been assigned, the developer has no further right to modify or adapt the software, unless the right to do so has been specifically preserved in the assigned document.
22. Catanzariti J. Women at work face a Catch 22 AUS 17/08/91 p.47
Employers have realised that if they don't restructure, they'll lose valuable, highly trained and hard-to-replace personnel.
21. Baker, C. In Praise of Mature-Age Students AGE 21/08/91 TEMPO p.5
.....Denuse Murte, Double Major in Applied Maths and Biology....they are desperate for people qualified in Applied Maths.
30. OOPS! More programmers need to get the right stuff. Enter object-oriented programming - the true evolution from third generation languages. AUS 08/06/93 p.36.
Ian Kinns....to make the transition, he recommended training and "a lot of background reading".
Steve Baker: The shortage is for people who have been doing it for more than 6 months.
Adam Winkelman: ...graduates without baggage from commercial programming made the best practitioners: "some Cobal programmers couldn't make the transition. For others, it will take a year".
In object-oriented programming (OOP) the dominant language is C. For people from a conventional programming background, it requires a significant change in mindset.
46. Talks aim to bridge the knowledge gap, AUS 15/6/93 p. 39. Mr Hugh Bathurst MD, of At A Glance, offering workshops to correct: the explosive growth in computer supply industry has left behind users application knowledge.
29. Forester T. Potential of IT to transform business
Process Innovation: Re-engineering Work Through Information Technology McGraw Hill Australia. AUS
06/07/93 p. 37. The primary enablers of change in organisations are technology and organisational/human factors.
1. Walker D. In future, work will be a state of mind Melbourne Age 10/07/93 p.15
Telecom replaces human voices with machine.
Prof. R. Blandy (cit.) Inquisitive minds ....valued.
Our skilled workers are some of the cheapest in the world.
Art, accountancy and even law degrees no longer a meal ticket.
58. William W. Horne wants knowledge shared around, AUS 20.11.93, p. 23. Chancellor, Uni of Canberra, Emeritus Prof Donald Horne, wants Aust academics to start sharing their thoughts around. ....the reason academics werte not communicating thier ideas in "books that other people read" was their attachment to their own peculiar notion of academic research. If they wirte books other people can read or give talks on Radio National, they can't put it in their cv and it might event count against them, he said. He said the role of a uni chancellor had four aspects: - being a good chairman of council meetings, contributing ideas to council, conferring with the vc on matters affecting the uni and representing the uni at official functions.
60. Pratt M. Life interest approach bring 'me' factor into curriculum. Age 9.4.91 p. 23
Changes in mores and values of Aust society have outpaced the changes in education. The terrifying, or even worse, desensitising flashes from a television set should not be part of a six-year-old's development. ....teachers of English ... should (also) leave pupils with their memories stored with beautiful things, which they genuinely love, which they will return to of their own volition....
27. Broderick D. - Humanity at risk in search for decentred 'man'. AUS, 02/06/93 p. 19.
Languages are the coding systems through which we are made human, and they are generated by culture being inscribed in individual brains.
Post humanism is dangerous for its denigration of the person, however decentred, relativist and constructed each of us is. Kate Soper in Humanism and Anti-Humanism: "The real problem lies not in the assertion of the structured nature of experience, but in the conceptualisation of individuals as no more than social 'effects'..... One can no longer speak of individuals as 'dominated' by social structures or in need of 'liberation' from them, since they are not thought of as beings with 'interests' to be affected.
35. Thorp D. More are now less equal than others. AUS 21/04/93 p. 17.
Author of Economic Rationalism in Canberra, Prof. Michael Pusey: the middle class in Australia is shrinking....if present levels of unemployment continue the country may produce an underclass.
45. Osborne M. Problems in supermarket approach to learning, AUS 9/3/93 p. 16
Prof Osborne, VC, Latrobe Uni, warns uni's against designing academic programs to suit transient popular tastes as a means to increase student intakes.
50. Singer P. Cultural clash sets rite against reason, AUS 9/6/93 p. 17.
Prof Peter Singer, Dep. Dir, Bio Ethics Centre, Monash Uni, argues that western society has historically imposed its cultural practices and values on other cultures. In multiculturism is the idea that no culture can regard itself superior to another.
42. Jones C. Law study must correct gender bias, schools told AUS 16/06/93 p.11. The Deakin Uni conf/Women and the Law: Judicial attitudes and how they impact on women called on more faculties to recognise gender bias in the legal system and review their courses.
49. Levin B. No free speech please, we're students, AUS 16.6.93 p. 16. Free Speech threatened by the creeping 'ethic' of political correctness from US campuses. eg. sexist language, racist language, creating a facist style of censorship.
51. Enzensberger H., In defence of illiteracy, AUS 23/12/92, p. 11 200 years after the end of the Enlightenment, people who can read prefer not to do so. Every third inhabitant of our planet gets by without the arts of reading and writing. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serios public conversatiron becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility. Extracted from Mediocrity and Delusion, by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (translated by Martin Chalmers, Verso, $49.95).
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C. Trust in work as input.
11. Sutcliffe, J.P. We Malcontents Are Everywhere AUS. 02/10/91 p.20
.....the better educated person is the one more capable of independent thought and further self education.
14. Three Steps on the HEC's Path to Excellence; The Quality Debate AUS. 20/11/91 p.25
.....notes the long-standing claims about the symbiosis of research and teaching in a university and would take it into account as an input as well as one of its more precious outputs.
19. West, W. Lectures on Construction Site; Building on Best Practice AUS. 14/07/91 p.16
Prof. Johnson wants to establish a lecture theatre on site of large buildings. .......most people coming out of university don't really know what working on a major building site really involves.
47. Green S. A fair day's pay no longer means an eight-hour day, AUS 19/6/93, p. 17. Historic changes in the workplace introducing flexibility in enterprise bargaining and unionised work practices.
53. Rance, C. Adapting to harsh realities. AGE 15/05/93, p. employment 1. "In buoyant markets the focus of personnel policy tended to be more on ensure the most competitive renumeration and benefits programs to attract, retain and satisfy employees". Today the focus is squarely on performance, rather than design policies around the notion of 'how much', the primary consideration is 'for what'. These policies will establish guidelines for acceptable performance as employees are increasingly accountable for their own performance in a team based work culture.......
40. AAP, Macquarie, Oxford in war of words, AUS 09/06/93 p. 19. Macquarie Library the Pub of the Macquarie Dict criticises Federal Govt decision for awarding tender to Oxford Uni Press on basis of British style.
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D. Trust in work as output.
1. Walker D. In future, work will be a state of mind Melbourne Age 10/07/93 p.15
Telecom replaces human voices with machine.
Prof. R. Blandy (cit.) Inquisitive minds ....valued.
Our skilled workers are some of the cheapest in the world.
Art, accountancy and even law degrees no longer a meal ticket.
14. Three Steps on the HEC's Path to Excellence; The Quality Debate AUS. 20/11/91 p.25
.....notes the long-standing claims about the symbiosis of research and teaching in a university and would take it into account as an input as well as one of its more precious outputs.
47. Green S. A fair day's pay no longer means an eight-hour day, AUS 19/6/93, p. 17. Historic changes in the workplace introducing flexibility in enterprise bargaining and unionised work practices.
53. Rance, C. Adapting to harsh realities. AGE 15/05/93, p. employment 1. "In buoyant markets the focus of personnel policy tended to be more on ensure the most competitive renumeration and benefits programs to attract, retain and satisfy employees". Today the focus is squarely on performance, rather than design policies around the notion of 'how much', the primary consideration is 'for what'. These policies will establish guidelines for acceptable performance as employees are increasingly accountable for their own performance in a team based work culture.......
3. West, W. Slant Against Job Skills Cuts Efficiency
AUS. 08/01/92 p.5
Sweet, R. - Studies had shown placing too much emphasis on higher education at the expense of vocational training,...lead to a less productive culture...trust in technology used.
5. Forster, T. It's No Good Unless You Aim to Mend Your Ways AUS. 28/01/92 p.30
Prof. L. Thurow - ...growing concern that the productivity pay off from IT was hard to discern.
15. Walk, M. Academy Faces Choice for Survival AUS. 20/11/91 p.21
...symposium of the Academy of Humanities...public audience turned up...it seems that the work people value is being done, as often as not, by scholars outside the Academy.
16. Bita, N. Schools Learn the Rules of Market Economy AUS. 16/09/91 p.5
Prof. Sir William Taylor - said governments wanted to rid their societies of a dependency culture.....wanted schools to foster enterprise, effort, entrepreneurship and competition among students.....the school is based on the family model - it's not highly competitive.
17. Shanahan, D. Wharf Reform a Failure: Conaust AUS. 07/07/91 p.3
Capt. Setchell...the process has delivered far too little and cost far too much.
18. Halder, R. Recession II, Coming Soon to an Economy Near You AUS. 08/04/91 p.11
BCA used WEF/IIND Survey.....weaknesses include.....low industrial efficiency and low productivity in economic infrastructure. .....Australia does well in resource based sectors but poorly in the manufacturing and service sectors of the economy.
20. Leech, G. Higher Profile for Private Sector AUS 14/08/91 p.15
Prof. Karmel - .....shift in emphasis from inputs to outcomes - from a producer-dominated to a consumer-dominated approach.
25. Hallett B. Answer is the thing for tireless traveler AUS 16/07/91 p.24
Prof. Paul Erdos . 78 year old, ..author & coauthor of 1700 research papers. ...." You have to leave theorems, problems and new ideas for the next generation, that is all you can do".
32. Thorp D. Employers find home workers twice as nice.
AUS 06/07/93 p. 39. IT people who work from home are twice as productive and produce work that is twice the quality of their office-bound counterparts.
39. Carruthers F. Heed Industry TAFE told, AUS 23/6/93 p. 19. The CE of the Aust Nat Train Auth Mr. Terry Moran said TAFE needs to address its courses to the needs of industry rather than the traditional approach to training.
43. Leech, G. Free urges quality, not quantity. AUS 16/06/93 p. 11. Fed Min for Schools, Vocat Ed & Train, Mr. Free said governments higher ed policy should now emphasis quality rather than growth.
8. Leech, G. You Are Being Drawn Away From Traditional Careers; Pupils Taught Not to be Teachers AUS. 19/06/91 p.13
NBEET Report - Nearly half the students surveyed said teaching was an unattractive profession.
12. Brett, J. Academics Who Never Leave School; Our Hidden Thinkers AUS. 25/01/92 p.25
The discipline is conceptualised in terms of shared subject matter, shared methods and techniques, shared conventions of writing and shared canonical texts. .....but knowledge...does not operate according to the model of organization embodied in disciplinary associations and university departments. Academic writing.....often fails to imagine a public audience because it is never trained to think of one.
23. Moeller S. Experience is missing link for many academics. AUS 17/08/91 p.53
D. Rosison - Some academics seem to work on the principle that the primary goal... is to keep staff busy ..... like the infamous tree planting schemes.
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E. Trust in manager's interests.
6. ichardson, N. Survey Criticises Lack of Technical Qualifications; Training - The Key to Building Recovery AUS. 19/09/91 p.4
R. Gyles QC - ...most workers saw multi-skilling as making their job more cost-effective. The majority of managers gave less union power top priority when they considered how to make their job better.
55. Scott J. Concern on right to modify software for fresh sales, Lawyer warns program developers on copyright.
AUS, 27.7.93 p. 16. Program developers who assign copyright in their programs to customers have been warned to proceed cautiously by a Mebourne computer lawyer. Once copyright has been assigned, the developer has no further right to modify or adapt the software, unless the right to do so has been specifically preserved in the assigned document.
58. William W. Horne wants knowledge shared around, AUS 20.11.93, p. 23. Chancellor, Uni of Canberra, Emeritus Prof Donald Horne, wants Aust academics to start sharing their thoughts around. ....the reason academics werte not communicating thier ideas in "books that other people read" was their attachment to their own peculiar notion of academic research. If they wirte books other people can read or give talks on Radio National, they can't put it in their cv and it might event count against them, he said. He said the role of a uni chancellor had four aspects: - being a good chairman of council meetings, contributing ideas to council, conferring with the vc on matters affecting the uni and representing the uni at official functions.
60. Pratt M. Life interest approach bring 'me' factor into curriculum. Age 9.4.91 p. 23
Changes in mores and values of Aust society have outpaced the changes in education. The terrifying, or even worse, desensitising flashes from a television set should not be part of a six-year-old's development. ....teachers of English ... should (also) leave pupils with their memories stored with beautiful things, which they genuinely love, which they will return to of their own volition....
45. Osborne M. Problems in supermarket approach to learning, AUS 9/3/93 p. 16
Prof Osborne, VC, Latrobe Uni, warns uni's against designing academic programs to suit transient popular tastes as a means to increase student intakes.
39. Carruthers F. Heed Industry TAFE told, AUS 23/6/93 p. 19. The CE of the Aust Nat Train Auth Mr. Terry Moran said TAFE needs to address its courses to the needs of industry rather than the traditional approach to training.
43. Leech, G. Free urges quality, not quantity. AUS 16/06/93 p. 11. Fed Min for Schools, Vocat Ed & Train, Mr. Free said governments higher ed policy should now emphasis quality rather than growth.
4. Surtees, F. Law Firms Put Cash up Front to Aid Universities AUS. 08/01/92 p.5
Prof. G. Walker - ...feed back from the profession. ...extra knowledge about the developments in the law and the types of skills required from today's law graduates.
24. Janes H. MBA's will help pave the way to corporate success. AUS 17/08/91 p.54
Problem solving and negotiating are the main parts of most management jobs. It is far more efficient to have individuals at lower levels making decisions.
36. Bruce D. The battle looming in the classroom. AUS 29/07/93 p. 4 The outstanding issue is this - what is the correct balance between a broad general education and one that develops specific work skills. .....VCE has allowed all students to apply for entry to higher education.
38. Carruthers F. Beazley pushes Asia link
AUS. 23/06/93. p. 18
The Government intended to promote Asia as a centre for Australian postgraduates to undertake high-level research. National Committee for Quality Assurance in Higher Education: The outcomes on which the committee will focus include the national and international impact of the universities' research, the education of graduates with attributes which enable them to operate anywhere in Australia or overseas.
41. Twist S. Early days of Anglomania and empty classrooms, AUS 9/6/93 p. 19.
The nat report on Australia's higher educ sector said Aust Uni's historically have tended to recreate the social order and institutions of England.
44. Shapiro B. Resource allocation the key to mass education, AUS 23/6/93 p. 16
Bernard Shapiro from the Uni Toronto details the challenges ahead for policy makers in the age of mass higher educ at OECD conf: resource allocation the key.
52. Jones C. Academics boost competency push, AUS 21/04/93, Academic unions have reiterated their support for the extension of the Mayer competencies to include higher education. Universities need to be sure that students have sound generic skills in the areas of key competencies. These abilities are only indirectly indicated in Year 12 scores and subject assessments. Explicit information about students achievements in at least some of these ares would therefore be usehful to universities in selcting students. The unions say ....achievements in the key competencies ought to form part of the set of possible consideratirons from selection of non-standard entry students - the 50 per cent of students who do not come to uni directly from year 12.
54. The Economist, Honesty and economics can go together,
AUS, 3/6/93, p. 31. Frank R, Gilovich T & Regan D paper Does Studying Economics Inhibit Co-operation? shows economics students are trained to regard self-interest as the force that determines economics choices. The study found that economics students contributed on average, 20% of their stakes to the public account. Students of other subjcts contributed 50%.
59. Munsie, K. Watchdog proposed for industry, AUS 7/8/91 p. 27. A permanent paliamentary committee to oversee the operations of the banking industry could be established when the banking inquiry was complete, the inquiry chairman Mr Stephen Martin said. It might be that the most appropriate link between banks and bureacracy is a committee of this nature. It would probably need to operate by having some sort of reference given to it, but it would mean that a quick examination of the facts could be made, without the need to set up a totally new inquiry every time a problem arises.
61. Owen R, National Mutual plans centralised system, AUS 14/8/91 P. 27. ... Nat Mutual will establish natironal business process centres in Brisbane and Melbourne next year as part of a centralisation plan to replace offices now operating in the six State capitals and cut costs.
Qld GM of NM Brian Roebig: the company which has funds of about $40 billion under mgt, had chosen Brisbane for the second centre over the other capitals because of the State's lower gvt taxes and charges, lower property costs and higher staff productivity.
63. Small business gets a chance to balance ledger, AUS 7/8/91 p. 31. Some small businesses are suspicious of well-established links between big business and government buyers. Mr Snow, whose seat of Eden-Monaro provides a lot of the small business catchment area for Federal Govt buyers, says small business in country towns believes it is hard done by and small business is suspicious that big business has a head start.
64. Cole-Adams P. State of The Nation - A clever dole queue? AGE 10/8/91 P. 11. ...the unemployed: who are they, and what is to done for them? ....what seems to be emerging is that there are four classes of people who are the most vulnerable: the unskilled young, migrants, the displaced middle-aged and Aborigines.
An admirable report on the future of the Australian labor market, released this week by the federal DEET, provides useful insights into their problems and what might be done in the decade ahead - a period during which economic restructuring is likely to lead to some industries shedding labor while others are likely to improve thier efficiency, but more by increasing producitivity than by taking on new workers. ....unemployment among teenagers ...rose from almost 29% compared with only 19% a year ago.
65. Button J.- Schools policy worth serious debate, AGE, 10.8.91, p. 11. The coalition policy released in April but updated this week by the "McDonalds factor" ... gives schools far greater power over finances and curriculum. The policy will meet with strong teacher-union opposition. Mary Bluett, dep pres of the Vic Second Teachers' Assoc says the policy has no safety net for teachers against a principals arbitrary decision.
66. Moeller S. Companies must act now to reap benefits in future, AUS 17/18 Aug '91. p. 49.
Australian co's must embrace two concepts this decade if they wanted to survive and prosper - empowerment and performance mgt. ...one of the keynote speakers at a training conf in Syd Dr. Richard Wellins said: "empowerment is not a program, it is a value or belief system. All levels of the organisat. must understand how empowerment could meet both personal and business needs and the reactions to make it happen. tasks must be defined, so employees had responsibility, could make decisions and contiually measure their own sucess. Performance mgt entailed setting cleqar goals, coaching people to succeed and letting them know hwo well they were doing.
67. Sheldrake P. Institute asks leading Australians for their views, Book has apt words of advice on future. AUS, 17/18 August 1991 p. 51. Aust Inst of Mgt commissioned a book, Furious Agreement, in which 40 leading Australians look at issues of concern to them, and assess their possible impact during the next 5 decades. The idea was to proejct to the future 50 years - rather than dwell on the past 50 years of growth and achievement.
68. Samson Prof D. Firms shift focus to performance, AUS 17-18 Aug 1991 p. 52. The focus of debate about Australia's economic performance during the 1980's was on macro-economic policies and to lesser extent on micro-economic reform. .... the third critical element of competitiveness - enterprise-based performance - expressed in terms of cost-productivity, quality, innovation-design, flexilibility, dependibility and service. These six dimensions of competitiveness drive customer choice .... The aim is to develop a market driven ops function .... direct focused strengths in the production function that will energise the firms competitiveness. Close co-op between marketing and operations mgrs is one key ingredient in developing this energy. Another is to consider production decisions as an integrated pattern, each aimed at contributing to the whole picture. This includes decisions about product design, technology, competitive positioning, quality policy, human resource skills, R&D, prod sched, make versus buy, facility location and layout and system capacity.
69. Murphy L. & Murphy Prof. E., Ten vital steps to ensure value for your dollar, AUS 17/18 Aug 1991, p. 52. Line mgrs plays a key role in successful training. ...too often mgrs do not have the input that can mean the difference between a succesful program that returns high rewards ..... 10 steps to help busy mgr make an invaluable input, without having to give up too much time - are listed.
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Survey E709/1:
Consider the management grid supplied, and bringing to mind your own experiences, insert Y if you believe the manager in question has a MAJOR trust for the item in column heading. If not, insert N.
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What type of Manager are you?
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