Job design and technology : Taylorism vs. anti-Taylorism
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Job design and technology : Taylorism vs. anti-Taylorism
(Routledge advances in management and business studies, 4)
Routledge, 1997
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  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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  United States of America
Note
Bibliographical references : p. 169-187
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 experience greatly enriched by moving away from the drudgery of the assembly line.
Table of Contents
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Inside consensual alternatives to Taylorism 3. Enlightenment, showing managers the way 4. Consensual alternatives: achievements in job design 5. Management power and efficiency as constraints 6. Alternative alternatives 7. A final note on anti-Taylorism Appendix A: Analysis of the relations between the alleviation of technical discipline, job enrichment, decentralization of responsibility and participation Endnotes Bibliography Index.
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