Working on the quality of working life Developments in Europe
In November 1975, the German Marshall Fund of the United States agreed to support a proposal from the International Council for the Quality of Working Life for study of 'cross-cultural com munication' on developments associated with the quality of work ing life -a shared interest of the...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1979, 1979
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1979 |
| Series: | International Series on the Quality of Working Life
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Table of Contents:
- 9. The Volkswagenwerk AG project within the framework of the research programme ‘Humanization of Working Life’ of the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology: Comparison of work structures in machine production (engine assembly)
- 10. Breaking the deadlock: The search for new strategies for Q.W.L.
- 11. Democratizing work and social life on ships: A report from the experiment on board M.S. Balao
- 12. ‘Action learning’ among unskilled women workers
- 13. Developing new forms of work organization in a new chemical plant in France
- 14. The starting-up of a new plant organized in multi-skilled production groups
- 15. Introduction of a procedure of change: An example of operation
- 16. From training to job redesign in a chemical plant in Italy
- Section Four: Action research reports: Administrative and office units
- 17. Participative work design: A contribution to democracy in the officeand on the shop floor
- 18. Clerical employees in X Y Z Company reorganize their department
- 19. Project: ‘Humanization and Participation’ in Centraal Beheer
- 20. Participatory research leads to employee-managed change: Some experience from a Norwegian bank
- Section Five: Action research reports: Public service
- 21. Experiment at Triemli Hospital: Environmental and physical changes in a hospital ward and their impacts on the behaviour and the social interactions of patients, visitors, and nurses
- 22. The implementation of team nursing: A change process and research project in a Dutch general hospital
- 23. Job satisfaction in the Civil Service in the United Kingdom
- Section Six: Trade union-oriented issues
- 24. The Demos project: Democratic control and planning in working life
- 25. The worker-union-management interface in workplace changes: A case study on problems of participation
- 26. Trade union involvement in retraining to develop new patterns of work organization
- Section One: Introduction
- 1. Project goals and approach: increasing actionable Q.W.L knowledge
- Section Two: Quality of working life improvements in Europe: National programmes and perspectives
- 2. The action programme of the German federal government: Research on the humanization of working life
- 3. Q.W.L. developments in Holland: an overview
- 4. Swedish industrial democracy, 1977: progress and new government initiatives
- 5. Historical background and action plans towards improving the quality of working life in the United Kingdom
- 6. A general overview of the current Q.W.L. scene in Italy: Notes on the situation in 1974, 1975 and 1977
- 7. Problems of middle management in France: Their special position regarding work reorganization
- Section Three: Action research reports: Production and technical units
- 8. Warehouse workers reorganize their own work organization
- Section Seven: Off-site training programmes
- 27. Participative redesign projects in Norway, summarizing the first five years of a strategy to democratize the design process in work organization
- 28. Participation in organization redesign: A five company Scottish workshop and later review meeting
- 29. Setting up a sociotechnical training programme at an engineering school in France: 1976/1977, a transitional year
- Section Eight: Concluding notes
- 30. Concluding notes
- Appendix: Addresses of contributors to the volume