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Title:
Managers and Their Jobs, 1964

Subject Categories:
General - Employment and labour
Management and organisation - Industry and management
Time use - Society and culture

Depositor(s):
Stewart, R., Oxford Centre for Management Studies

Principal Investigator(s):
Stewart, R., Oxford Centre for Management Studies

Sponsor(s):
Nuffield Foundation

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:
Dates of Fieldwork: 1964
Country: Great Britain
Spatial Units: No spatial unit
Observation Units: Individuals; Institutions/organisations
Kind of Data: Textual data; Numeric data

Universe Sampled:
Location of Units of Observation:National
Population:Managers in the manufacturing and service sectors

Methodology:
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

Language(s) of Written Materials:
Study Description: English
Study Documentation: English

Access:
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