Giglio L, Diamante T, Urban J M
Journal of Management Development, (UK), Vol 17 No 2 98
Start page: 93 No of pages: 13
Catalogues the pressures that a senior executive has to deal with, particularly at times of organizational change. Suggests that providing coaching (both for the executive and the other senior management team members) can help when these pressures become too great and the executive’s ability to lead the organization suffers. 

Clinical negligence costing 300 million pounds a year is putting excessive pressure on health funds according to the Institute of Health Services Management.
‘What makes this news particularly disturbing is the number of health authorities and trusts that have got in severe financial difficulties. 

Margaret Beckett, President of the Board of Trade today said that public and private enterprise can deal with the millennium bug if managers face up to the problem.
Her comments follow the publication of the second Science and Technology Select Committee report setting out an action programme across Government for dealing with the Millennium bug problem. 

Sue Dopson, Lecturer in Management Studies and Fellow in Organizational Behaviour, Templeton College, Oxford
This book uses the case of the National Health Service to examine the management of ambiguity and change. Studies of the implementation of the Griffiths Report have identified a number of unintended consequences, but it is argued that they have not adequately theorised these outcomes in the policy implementation process.