Cold morning inducting a key manager and reviewing personnel policies, then rueing company car accidents of one per week and finally reviewing new customer services building plans as fighting rages in Beirut, an oil rig is righted and SDP/Liberal merger is mooted
Early today to the office and I make sure that the factory heating is on for the first time this year. A cold day with rain in the air. Today, my new Comart Manufacturing Manager Carlton Lowe started and the greater part of the day was spent in his training and induction. I discussed with him the Comart structure and organisation introducing him to key personnel with whom he will need to liaise. Then to assess with him the principal subordinates and their potential roles. Over lunch an opportunity to meet the Comart Directors – David Fear and Derek Weatherby – that were not present at his interviews. Lastly an in-depth review of my personnel policies and procedure concluding with the present status of production performance.
It now takes the best part of a day to complete the initial induction of departmental Managers but I feel that today has given him a reasonable chance. I am troubled today at the amazing number of company car accidents we seem to be experiencing. Almost one a week at the moment. In late afternoon I review the latest plans for the new customer services building with the architect.
Fighting today all around Beirut in Lebanon with their government appeal for United Nations intervention. The EEC foreign ministers failed to agree a statement condemning the Soviet action with Greece preventing anything but a statement of regret. The SDP leader Dr David Owen rejects talk of a merger with the Liberal Party. The Alexander Kelan oil rig is being righted at last.