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Summary
This new edition tackles all the latest developments and integrates practical perspectives with rigorous research to shed light on a vital aspect of working life. Focusing on developing the human and social resources within an organization, this book provides the basis for designing and implementing sustainable work systems.
Table of Contents
| List of figures | p. xi |
| List of tables | p. xii |
| Notes on contributors | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgements | p. xvii |
| Foreword: I | p. xx |
| Foreword: II | p. xxiii |
| What the world needs now is sustainable work systems | p. 1 |
| Focusing value frameworks | p. 23 |
| Organizational visions of sustainability | p. 25 |
| The Interface journey to sustainability: Identity dynamics within cultural incrementalism | p. 38 |
| Focusing work and work systems | p. 51 |
| Sustainability in knowledge-based companies | p. 53 |
| Sustainability and the ageing workforce: Considerations with regard to the German car manufacturing industry | p. 70 |
| Utilizing technology to supports sustainability | p. 84 |
| Focusing change in sustainable organizations | p. 101 |
| Creating sustainable, desired change in teams through application of intentional change and complexity theories | p. 103 |
| Sustainable heritage in a rapidly changing environment | p. 117 |
| Learning mechanisms in sustainable work systems design | p. 131 |
| Financial management to support sustainability | p. 147 |
| Focusing systems | p. 165 |
| A development coalition for sustainability in healthcare | p. 167 |
| Three powers of feedback for sustainable multi-organizational learning | p. 186 |
| Labelling and sustainability: The case of specialty coffee | p. 202 |
| An initial exploration of sustainable work systems in China: An issue of imbalance between economic and social reform | p. 217 |
| Future of sustainable work systems | p. 231 |
| Sustained by work: Individual and social sustainability in work organizations | p. 233 |
| Toward a sustainable work systems design and change methodology | p. 247 |
| Sustainable work systems: Past, present and future of social sustainability | p. 268 |
| Index | p. 290 |
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