Job Design and Technology: Taylorism vs Anti-Taylorism,9780415158695

Job Design and Technology: Taylorism vs Anti-Taylorism

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415158695
ISBN10: 0415158699
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-10-02
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

This book provides a systematic analysis of anti-Taylorist activity at a shop-floor level, analyzing 150 cases of anti-Taylorist initiatives in Scandinavia, the UK and the Netherlands.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
ix(1)
Preface x(2)
Acknowledgments xii
1 INTRODUCTION
1(17)
Taylorism proved to be more persistent than many had expected
2(2)
Anti-Tayloristic initiatives can give insight into the range of options for the application of information technology and job design, and the possibilities for planned change in this area
4(4)
Neo-Taylorism needs an alternative
8(2)
Anti-Tayloristic initiatives
10(1)
Data collection
11(1)
Data analysis
12(1)
General theory
13(3)
Structure of the book
16(2)
2 INSIDE CONSENSUAL ALTERNATIVES TO TAYLORISM
18(23)
Introduction
18(1)
The drive to change: Taylorist troubles, economic and moral
19(1)
Inberent dysfunctions
19(7)
Changing structures
26(5)
Changing attitudes
31(4)
Social movement aspects
35(4)
Summary and conclusions
39(2)
3 ENLIGHTENMENT: SHOWING MANAGERS THE WAY
41(26)
Introduction
41(1)
Scientific support: the business of consultant-researchers
42(11)
Strategies for diffusion
53(2)
Developing anti-Tayloristic technology
55(6)
Subsidizing firms for implementing alternative organization models
61(2)
The political level: institutionalization of humanization policy
63(3)
Concluding note
66(1)
4 CONSENSUAL ALTERNATIVES: ACHIEVEMENTS IN JOB DESIGN
67(30)
Introduction
67(1)
Alleviation of technical discipline
67(3)
Job enlargement
70(3)
Job enrichment
73(8)
Decentralization of responsibility to the shop-floor level
81(3)
Participation
84(4)
A note on prevention
88(1)
Success and regression
89(4)
Contingencies reveal vulnerability
93(1)
Diffusion
94(1)
Conclusions
95(2)
5 MANAGEMENT POWER AND EFFICIENCY AS CONSTRAINTS
97(19)
Management power as an end in itself
97(6)
The compatibility of anti-Taylorism with efficiency
103(12)
Concluding note on constraints
115(1)
6 ALTERNATIVE ALTERNATIVES
116(30)
A conceptual model of anti-Tayloristic policy
116(3)
Worker mobilization as an antidote
119(21)
Government-enforced standards for work organization: pushing humanization beyond the bounds of efficiency?
140(3)
Conclusions
143(3)
7 A FINAL NOTE ON ANTI-TAYLORISM
146(3)
Appendix 149(3)
Notes 152(17)
Bibliography 169(19)
Index 188

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