Job Design and Technology - Taylorism vs Anti-Taylorism

List 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.

About the author

Hans D. Pruijt

Summary

This book provides a systematic analysis of anti-Taylorist activity at a shop-floor level, analyzing 150 cases of anti-Taylorist initiatives in Scandinavia, the UK and the Netherlands.

Product details

• Authors: Hans D. Pruijt, Pruijt Hans D.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.1997
• EAN: 9780415158695
• ISBN: 978-0-415-15869-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Organizational theory & behaviour, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Sociology: work & labour, Organizational theory and behaviour, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General