Information and communication technologies are completely revolutionizing our working practices. Flexible hours, e-mail, virtual meeting rooms, and working from home are all relatively new additions to our professional lives. Not only have they helped to connect organizations an…
Information and communication technologies have completely revolutionized our working practices. Career patterns, professional identities, speed of communication, time management, and mobility have been irrevocably changed in an amazingly short perio d. Drawing on worldwide case…
The rapid development and widespread use of new technologies, particularly those based on microelectronics, have brought about radical changes in people's lives the world over. They have also altered production conditions, organisational structures, firm behaviour and employment…
The social engagement of social science
by Murray, Hugh, Trist, Beulah, Trist, Eric Lansdown
Pruijt analyses 150 cases of anti-Taylorist initiatives in the UK, the Netherlands and Scandinavia in order to show that the quality of the working experience can be greatly enriched by moving away from the drudgery of the assembly line.
"A Theory of Employment Systems considers why there are such great international differences in the way employment relations are organized within the firm. Taking account of the growing evidence that international diversity persists despite 'globalization', it sets out from the …