Japanese Management Techniques and British Workers

List of contents

Chapter 1 Japanese Management Techniques and the Paradoxical Absence of Labour; Chapter 2 Japanese Lean Production in South Wales; Chapter 3 Japanese Human Resource Management in South Wales; Chapter 4 Local and Global Contexts to the Restructuring of Work at a British Factory; Chapter 5 Lean Production Control and Labour Intensification; Chapter 6 Teamwork and Kaizen; Chapter 7 The New Industrial Relations; Chapter 8 The Disciplinary Impact of Human Resource Management; Chapter 9 Conclusion;

About the author

Andy Danford

Summary

Analyzing the impact of Japanese-style management techniques such as lean production, teamworking, kaizen (continuous improvement) and business unionism of factory workers, this text investigates different facets of the organization of the labour process and employment relations within 15 Japanese transplants in South Wales. There is an emphasis on the impact of the restructuring of workplace relations on both individual groups of workers and collective labour organization. The text provides an insight into the reality of factory life in the 1990s by incorporating descriptions of shop-floor observations, quantitive data and revealing comments from different grades of shop-floor workers, office workers and management.

Product details

• Authors: Andy Danford, Danford Andy
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.1998
• EAN: 9780720123685
• ISBN: 978-0-7201-2368-5
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 650 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Business & Economics / General, Economics, Public Relations, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General