Format:
1 online resource (336 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781855753488
,
9781849406390
Content:
This book is a collection of papers covering the meaning and organization of work. It presents several examples of action research and consultancy activities on work organization, working with other professions that influence the design of jobs, and the implications for institutions and policy
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE Introduction: the context. A perspective on work organization in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- SECTION I: MAKING THE CASE -- CHAPTER TWO The function of work in human life -- CHAPTER THREE The meaning of work -- CHAPTER FOUR Luddism for the twenty-first century -- SECTION II: RESEARCH STUDIES -- CHAPTER FIVE The human implications of rationalizing work -- CHAPTER SIX Living and working in hospital wards. Using electronic patient records -- SECTION III: CONSULTING AND ACTION RESEARCH -- CHAPTER SEVEN The "Humanization of Work" programme in Germany: some cultural influences in the design and re-design of work -- CHAPTER EIGHT Contribution to the design of a new confectionery factory -- CHAPTER NINE Work organization in the design of a new canning plant: plant design, job design, and industrial relations -- CHAPTER TEN Work organization in branch banking -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Putting information and communications technology to work in the construction industry: testing a model -- SECTION IV: THE BOUNDARIES WITH OTHER PROFESSIONS -- CHAPTER TWELVE The production engineer's role in industrial relations -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN "Satisfactions in work design": some problems of theory and method -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN The management of innovation: from platitudes to reality in job design -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN On the collaboration between social scientists and engineers -- SECTION V: AND FINALLY . . . -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN And finally-some reflections on institutions and policy -- APPENDIX I: Work: its rewards and discontents (an Arno Press collection) -- APPENDIX II: Checklist for implementation issues -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Additional Edition:
Print version Klein, Lisl The Meaning of Work Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2008 ISBN 9781855753488
Language:
English
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