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1 online resource (xiii, 190 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge advances in management and business studies ; 4 |
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Routledge advances in management and business studies ; 4.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; Job Design and Technology; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Taylorism proved to be more persistent than many had expected; Anti-Tayloristic initiatives can give insight into the range of options for the application of information technology and job design, and the possibilities for planned change in thisarea; Neo-Taylorism needs an alternative; Anti-Tayloristic initiatives; Data collection; Data analysis; General theory; Structure of the book; 2. Inside Consensual Alternatives to Taylorism; Introduction |
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The drive to change: Taylorist troubles, economic and moralInherent dysfunctions; Changing structures; Changing attitudes; Social movement aspects; Summary and conclusions; 3. Enlightenment: Showing managers the way; Introduction; Scientific support: the business of consultant-researchers; Strategies for diffusion; Developing anti-Tayloristic technology; Subsidizing firms for implementing alternative organization models; The political level: institutionalization of humanization policy; Concluding note; 4. Consensual Alternatives: Achievements in Job Design; Introduction |
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Alleviation of technical disciplineJob enlargement; Job enrichment; Decentralization of responsibility to the shop-floor level; Participation; A note on prevention; Success and regression; Contingencies reveal vulnerability; Diffusion; Conclusions; 5. Management Power and Efficiency as Constraints; Management power as an end in itself; The compatibility of anti-Taylorism with efficiency; Concluding note on constraints; 6. Alternative Alternatives; A conceptual model of anti-Tayloristic policy; Worker mobilization as an antidote |
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Government-enforced standards for work organization: pushing humanization beyond the bounds of efficiency?Conclusions; 7. A Final Note on Anti-Taylorism; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Despite global competition and the need for speed, flexibility and quality, trends such as lean production and McDonaldization show that Taylorism remains alive and well in the contemporary workplace. There is however a countermovement, particularly in North-West Europe, where successful alternatives are being pursued. Job Design and Technology fills an important gap, by analyzing 150 cases of anti-Taylorist initiatives in Scandinavia, the UK and the Netherlands. It aims to show that real change can be achieved in the workplace and the quality of the working expe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-187) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Industrial organization -- Data processing
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Organizational change -- Europe -- Case studies
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Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Europe -- Case studies
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Job satisfaction.
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Work design.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Workplace Culture.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Human Resources & Personnel Management.
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Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on
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Industrial organization -- Data processing
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Job satisfaction
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Organizational change
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Work design
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Case studies
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203444574 |
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9780203444573 |
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9786610318483 |
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6610318484 |
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9781134725106 |
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1134725108 |
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9781134725052 |
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1134725051 |
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9781134725090 |
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1134725094 |
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