Archives for August 3rd, 1998

REGROUNDING THE CONCEPT OF LEADERSHIP

Abstracts, PublicNet: 3 August, 1998

Andrews J P, Field R H G
Leadership & Organization Development Journal, (UK), Vol 19 No 3 98
Start page: 128 No of pages: 9
Summarizes the ideas that underpin the recent growth of interest in the cognitive aspects of leadership, which focus on the followers’ perceptions of leadership as being crucial to the understanding of how leadership emerges within an organization. 



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GOVERNMENT: NEW MOVES TO END DISABLED DISCRIMINATION

Headlines, PublicNet: 3 August, 1998

Margaret Hodge, Minister for Disabled People, has announced further progress in taking forward the Government’s commitment to comprehensive, enforceable civil rights for disabled people.
Mrs Hodge announced that together with the National Disability Council, the Government has launched a consultation on the introduction of new rights of access to goods, facilities and services under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA). 

FRANK DOBSON OUTLINES THIRD WAY FOR MENTAL HEALTH

Headlines, PublicNet: 3 August, 1998

Reforms designed to deliver safe and comprehensive mental health services have been set out by Health Secretary Frank Dobson. Mr Dobson says he wants a third way for mental health.
New measures will include extra funding, a root and branch review of the law, specialist secure units, hour crisis teams and helplines, more acute hospital beds, and assertive outreach teams to keep tabs on people who have been discharged.
Frank Dobson says: “Care in the community has failed. 

CHALLENGING REALITY - IN SEARCH OF THE FUTURE

Book News, PublicNet: 3 August, 1998

By Christopher Barnatt, University of Nottingham
The author is concerned with the shifting boundaries of organisational achievement across time. He looks at how future forms of organisation may develop as the next millennium looms closer given the constantly changing nature of ‘reality’. 

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