A Flexible Future?: Prospects for Employment and Organization

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A Flexible Future?

Prospects for Employment and Organization

Edited by: Paul Blyton and Jonathan Morris

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1991

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Volume 30 | de Gruyter Studies in Organization

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Business and Economics Business Management Management, Organization, Corporate Governance
Business and Economics Business Management Human Resources, Labor Practice, Job and Career
Business and Economics Business Management Business Management, other
Business and Economics Business Management Industries Retail, Service Industry, Skilled Crafts and Trades

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XV
List of figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XVI
Chapter 1. A Flexible Future: Aspects of the Flexibility Debates and Some Unresolved Issues Paul Blyton and Jonathan Morris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. The End of Organized Society: A Theme in Search of a Theory Michael I. Reed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 3. Flexible Specialisation: New Times or Old Hat? Al Rainnie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter 4. Primary Flexibility — the Flexible Firm and its Determinants Peter J. Sloane and Anne Gasteen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Chapter 5. Going Flexible: The Penetration of New Management Practices and a New Workplace Politics in Sweden Hans Glimell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Chapter 6. Imaginative Flexibility in Production Engineering: The Volvo Uddevalla Plant Thomas Clarke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 7. From Uniformity to Diversity: Changing Patterns of Wages and Work Practices in the North American Automobile Industry John Holmes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Chapter 8. Between Control and Consent?: Corporate Strategy and Employee Involvement in Ford U.K. Alan McKinlay and Ken Starkey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Chapter 9. Buyer — Supplier Relations in the UK Automotive Industry Peter Turnbull Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter 10. Strategic Management and the Decision to Subcontract Hedley Malloch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Chapter 11. Towards Flexibility: Technical Change and Buyer Supplier Relationships in the British Clothing Industry Marian Whitaker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Chapter 12. Subcontract, Flexibility and Changing Employment Relations in the Water Industry Julia O’Connell Davidson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Chapter 13. Quality Strategies and Workforce Strategies in the European Iron and Steel Industry Hans-Werner Franz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Chapter 14. Flexibility, New Technology and British Coal Jonathan Winterton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Chapter 15. Open Secrets and Hidden Agendas: Working Time, Flexibility and Industrial Relations in British Engineering Alan McKinlay and Des McNulty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Chapter 16. Human Resource Management and Labour Flexibility: Some Reflections Based on Cross-National and Sectoral Studies in Canada and the UK Gillian D. Ursell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Chapter 17. Workplace Flexibility in Professional Organizations: A Study of Canadian Hospitals Ali Dastmalchian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
Chapter 18. The Reshaping of 'Flexible' Labour?: European Policy Perspectives Tim Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367

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eBook published on:

November 7, 2017

eBook ISBN:

9783110863345

Hardcover published on:

August 1, 1991

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110124347

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Reprint 2017

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

13

Main content:

364

Illustrations:

20

Tables:

24

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110863345

eBook ISBN: 9783110863345

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110124347

Keywords for this book

Organisation; Flexibilität; Kongress

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