High Performance Work Systems - The Digital Experience

This book analyses the 'high performance work systems' that a number of American and European companies have evolved to meet this challenge. It particular, it describes in detail the experiences of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) at their UK manufacturing plant.

List of contents

Foreword by Laurence V. C. Megson; Acknowledgments; Part One: Back to the Future; 1. Buried in the 1970s 2. Surfaced in the 1980s 3. Managing Change; Part Two: The Digital Experience; 4. Digital’s Achievement Culture 5. Stuffing Modules 6. Competitive Organizational Design 7. Pain and Rewards 8. Transient Structures 9. The High Performance Experience; Part Three: The Wider Relevance; 10. The Consequences 11. Large Scale Organizational Change 12. The Management Lessons; Appendix; Bibliography; Index

About the author

David A. Buchanan, James McCalman

Summary

This book analyses the ‘high performance work systems’ that a number of American and European companies have evolved to meet this challenge. It particular, it describes in detail the experiences of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) at their UK manufacturing plant.

Product details

• Authors: David A Buchanan, David A. Buchanan, David A. (Cranfield University Buchanan, David A. Mccalman Buchanan, Buchanan David A., James McCalman, McCalman James
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2018
• EAN: 9780815367208
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-6720-8
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Management
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, Business innovation, Management & management techniques, Management and management techniques