Flexible Organizations and the New Working Life
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Flexible Organizations and the New Working Life
A European Perspective
Skorstad, Egil J.; Ramsdal, Helge
Taylor & Francis Ltd
03/2009
288
Dura
Inglês
9780754674207
15 a 20 dias
What are we actually talking about when we talk of flexibility in organizational settings? Do flexible forms of organization lead to varied, challenging and autonomous work or do they have a negative impact on working conditions? This book intends to answer these questions.
Contents: Preface; Introduction, Helge Ramsdal and Egil J. Skorstad; The ambiguity of flexibility, Egil J. Skorstad; The impact of flexibility on employee morale and involvement: large-sample findings for UK workplaces, Michael Rose; Whose flexibility? British employees' responses to flexible capitalism, Harriet Bradley; A package of flexibility?, Birgitta Eriksson and Jan Ch. Karlsson; Protected, firm-specific, and scarce: explanations of non-standard forms of employment, R. Oystein Strom; Combining flexibility and workers' motivation: lessons from a study on Italian and French hospitals, Philippe R. Mosse; Striving for flexibility, attaining resistance: culture clashes in the Swedish rail industry, Henrietta Huzell; The re-organization of manufacturing and the emergence of a flexible economy in the UK, Stephen Ackroyd; The quest for flexibility and governmental regulations of working life: the case of the 2005 Norwegian worker protection and working environment act, Helge Ramsdal; What's special about the Nordic countries? On flexibility, globalisation and working life, Tor Claussen; Concluding remarks. The complex dynamism of the flexible organization, Egil J. Skorstad; Index.
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What are we actually talking about when we talk of flexibility in organizational settings? Do flexible forms of organization lead to varied, challenging and autonomous work or do they have a negative impact on working conditions? This book intends to answer these questions.
Contents: Preface; Introduction, Helge Ramsdal and Egil J. Skorstad; The ambiguity of flexibility, Egil J. Skorstad; The impact of flexibility on employee morale and involvement: large-sample findings for UK workplaces, Michael Rose; Whose flexibility? British employees' responses to flexible capitalism, Harriet Bradley; A package of flexibility?, Birgitta Eriksson and Jan Ch. Karlsson; Protected, firm-specific, and scarce: explanations of non-standard forms of employment, R. Oystein Strom; Combining flexibility and workers' motivation: lessons from a study on Italian and French hospitals, Philippe R. Mosse; Striving for flexibility, attaining resistance: culture clashes in the Swedish rail industry, Henrietta Huzell; The re-organization of manufacturing and the emergence of a flexible economy in the UK, Stephen Ackroyd; The quest for flexibility and governmental regulations of working life: the case of the 2005 Norwegian worker protection and working environment act, Helge Ramsdal; What's special about the Nordic countries? On flexibility, globalisation and working life, Tor Claussen; Concluding remarks. The complex dynamism of the flexible organization, Egil J. Skorstad; Index.
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