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Volume 3, Issue 2
1 February 1988
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Women in Management Review & Abstracts
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Review Article| February 01 1988

Why Are You Wasting 13 Per Cent of Your Working Life?

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2977-716X
Print ISSN: 0955-8357
© MCB UP Limited
1988
Women in Management Review & Abstracts (1988) 3 (2): 85–89.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005178

Why don't managers make better use of their secretaries' time? Why don't secretaries get more out of their bosses? Sue Heaton of The Industrial Society describes how ineffective managers are when it comes to using this particular human resource and discusses what can be done to improve matters.

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