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Title details

SN:	5255
Title:	Managers and Their Jobs, 1964
Depositor(s):	Stewart, R., Oxford Centre for Management Studies
Principal investigator(s):	Stewart, R., Oxford Centre for Management Studies
Sponsor(s):	Nuffield Foundation

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Abstract

This research project was conducted in the mid-1960s, and explored some of the similarities and differences in the ways in which managers actually spent their time at work. Approximately 160 managers in many different fields of business were asked to keep a four-week diary detailing the spread of their day-to-day work activities. The researcher then followed up the diaries in correspondence with individual managers, comparing their activities with others in the same field and seeking explanations for time patterns that were distinctive or unclear. This research material consists of the time diaries, analysis, hand-written statistical tables and subsequent correspondence. Some statistical data from the project have been lodged separately with the UK Data Archive (UKDA) as SN 29 Similarities and Differences in Managers Jobs, 1964.

Coverage, universe, methodology

Dates of fieldwork:	1964
Country:	Great Britain
Spatial units:	No spatial unit
Observation units:	Individuals Organisations
Kind of data:	Textual Numeric
Universe:	National Managers in the manufacturing and service sectors
Time dimensions:	Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Sampling procedures:	Managers from senior sales, production and accounting in a variety of companies (ranging in size from 12 to over 30,000 employees)
Number of units:	160
Method of data collection:	Face-to-face interview; Diaries
Weighting:	No weighting used

Keywords

ADMINISTRATION	BUSINESS MANAGEMENT	DIARIES
EMPLOYMENT	GREAT BRITAIN	MANAGEMENT TRAINING
MANAGERIAL CHARACTERISTICS	MANAGERS	MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
WORKING TIME

Administrative and access information

Date of release:
First edition:	03 October 2005
Copyright:	Copyright London School of Economics
Access conditions:	Host archive conditions apply.
Availability:	These data are available from a service other than UK Data Service - The British Library of Political and Economic Science. Contact the UK Data Service in the first instance.
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