Flexible Organizations and the New Working Life

Flexible Organizations and the New Working Life

A European Perspective

Skorstad, Egil J.; Ramsdal, Helge

Taylor & Francis Ltd

03/2009

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Inglês

9780754674207

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Preface; Introduction, Helge Ramsdal and Egil J. Skorstad; The ambiguity of flexibility, Egil J. Skorstad; The impact of flexibility on employee morale and involvement: large-sample findings for UK workplaces, Michael Rose; Whose flexibility? British employees' responses to flexible capitalism, Harriet Bradley; A package of flexibility?, Birgitta Eriksson and Jan Ch. Karlsson; Protected, firm-specific, and scarce: explanations of non-standard forms of employment, R. Oystein Strom; Combining flexibility and workers' motivation: lessons from a study on Italian and French hospitals, Philippe R. Mosse; Striving for flexibility, attaining resistance: culture clashes in the Swedish rail industry, Henrietta Huzell; The re-organization of manufacturing and the emergence of a flexible economy in the UK, Stephen Ackroyd; The quest for flexibility and governmental regulations of working life: the case of the 2005 Norwegian worker protection and working environment act, Helge Ramsdal; What's special about the Nordic countries? On flexibility, globalisation and working life, Tor Claussen; Concluding remarks. The complex dynamism of the flexible organization, Egil J. Skorstad; Index.
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