"People are naturally inquisitive. They like to know what is going on, especially if they think it might affect them."
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a period of deep recession, characterised by stagnant produc-. tion, rising unemployment, low investment and uncompetitive exports." He warned that at the ,same time the constant publicity about the marvels which the age of the microchip is bringing ever nearer, together with our good fortune in having an abundant supply of energy for the next few decades, may well be lulling people into a false sense of optimism that all will come right in the end. "There are some 'who remind us of our past 'glories and indeed we did lead the world in the first industrial revolution and continued to hold an undoubted supremacy in a number of fields until recent times. It is argued that we can some rude shocks and an impartial observer might conclude that our poor record in industrial relations in recent times is as much the result of management failures as of militant unionism. Perhaps we have been slow in learning how to handle people at work so as to get a consistently good performance out of He gave hope for the future.
He believes there are signs that we are learning and that we have some excellent managers today who are applying the modern approach and achieving success with it. In his view engineers and managers can lead the country back to prosperity and to a leading position in tomorrow's world.