The meaning of work : papers on work organization and the design of jobs / Lisl Klein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, Lisl.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work.

Facility management.

Industrial organization.

Work environment--Design.

Work environment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Lisl Klein has spent forty years working on the twin themes of the practice of social science in organizations and the importance of work and work organization. Papers on the first of these were published as Working Across the Gap (catalogue number 20169). This volume brings together papers covering the second theme, the meaning and organization of work. After a historical introduction, the book has five sections: Making the case; Two pieces of research, separated by forty years; Five examples of action research and consultancy activities on work organization; Working with other professions that influence the design of jobs; Reflections on the implications for institutions and policy."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Copy Right

Acknowledgements

About the author

Figures and tables

Preface

ch 1. Introduction: the context. A perspective on work organization in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries

SECTION I. MAKING THE CASE

ch 2. The function of work in human life

ch 3. The meaning of work

ch 4. Luddism for the twenty-first century

SECTION II. RESEARCH STUDIES

ch 5. The human implications of rationalizing work

ch 6. Living and working in hospital wards. Using electronic patient records

SECTION III. CONSULTING AND ACTION RESEARCH

ch 7. The "Humanization of Work" programme in Germany: some cultural influences in the design and re-design of work

ch 8. Contribution to the design of a new confectionery factory

ch 9. Work organization in the design of a new canning plant: plant design, job design, and industrial relations

ch 10. Work organization in branch banking

ch 11: Putting information and communications technology to work in the construction industry: testing a mode

SECTION IV: THE BOUNDARIES WITH: OTHER PROFESSIONS

ch 12. The production engineer's role in industrial relations ch 13. "Satisfactions in work design": some problems of theory and method

ch 14: The management of innovation: from platitudes to reality in job design

ch 15: On the collaboration between social scientists and engineers

SECTION V: AND FINALLY...

ch 16. And finally-some reflections on institutions and policy

APPENDIX I: Work: its rewards and discontents (an Arno Press collection)

APPENDIX II: Checklist for implementation issues.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-309) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613070548

9781780494081

1780494084

9780429921421

042992142X

9780429907197

0429907192

9780429482427

0429482426

9781283070546

1283070545

9781849406390

1849406391

OCLC:

723944339