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A Flexible Future? : Prospects for Employment and Organization / ed. by Jonathan Morris, Paul Blyton.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: de Gruyter Studies in Organization ; 30Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2017]Copyright date: ©1991Edition: Reprint 2017Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 364 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110124347
  • 9783110863345
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  • 331.25
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Chapter 1. A Flexible Future: Aspects of the Flexibility Debates and Some Unresolved Issues -- Chapter 2. The End of Organized Society: A Theme in Search of a Theory -- Chapter 3. Flexible Specialisation: New Times or Old Hat? -- Chapter 4. Primary Flexibility — the Flexible Firm and its Determinants -- Chapter 5. Going Flexible: The Penetration of New Management Practices and a New Workplace Politics in Sweden -- Chapter 6. Imaginative Flexibility in Production Engineering: The Volvo Uddevalla Plant -- Chapter 7. From Uniformity to Diversity: Changing Patterns of Wages and Work Practices in the North American Automobile Industry -- Chapter 8. Between Control and Consent?: Corporate Strategy and Employee Involvement in Ford U.K. -- Chapter 9. Buyer — Supplier Relations in the UK Automotive Industry -- Chapter 10. Strategic Management and the Decision to Subcontract -- Chapter 11. Towards Flexibility: Technical Change and Buyer Supplier Relationships in the British Clothing Industry -- Chapter 12. Subcontract, Flexibility and Changing Employment Relations in the Water Industry -- Chapter 13. Quality Strategies and Workforce Strategies in the European Iron and Steel Industry -- Chapter 14. Flexibility, New Technology and British Coal -- Chapter 15. Open Secrets and Hidden Agendas: Working Time, Flexibility and Industrial Relations in British Engineering -- Chapter 16. Human Resource Management and Labour Flexibility: Some Reflections Based on Cross-National and Sectoral Studies in Canada and the UK -- Chapter 17. Workplace Flexibility in Professional Organizations: A Study of Canadian Hospitals -- Chapter 18. The Reshaping of 'Flexible' Labour?: European Policy Perspectives -- List of Contributors -- Backmatter
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Chapter 1. A Flexible Future: Aspects of the Flexibility Debates and Some Unresolved Issues -- Chapter 2. The End of Organized Society: A Theme in Search of a Theory -- Chapter 3. Flexible Specialisation: New Times or Old Hat? -- Chapter 4. Primary Flexibility — the Flexible Firm and its Determinants -- Chapter 5. Going Flexible: The Penetration of New Management Practices and a New Workplace Politics in Sweden -- Chapter 6. Imaginative Flexibility in Production Engineering: The Volvo Uddevalla Plant -- Chapter 7. From Uniformity to Diversity: Changing Patterns of Wages and Work Practices in the North American Automobile Industry -- Chapter 8. Between Control and Consent?: Corporate Strategy and Employee Involvement in Ford U.K. -- Chapter 9. Buyer — Supplier Relations in the UK Automotive Industry -- Chapter 10. Strategic Management and the Decision to Subcontract -- Chapter 11. Towards Flexibility: Technical Change and Buyer Supplier Relationships in the British Clothing Industry -- Chapter 12. Subcontract, Flexibility and Changing Employment Relations in the Water Industry -- Chapter 13. Quality Strategies and Workforce Strategies in the European Iron and Steel Industry -- Chapter 14. Flexibility, New Technology and British Coal -- Chapter 15. Open Secrets and Hidden Agendas: Working Time, Flexibility and Industrial Relations in British Engineering -- Chapter 16. Human Resource Management and Labour Flexibility: Some Reflections Based on Cross-National and Sectoral Studies in Canada and the UK -- Chapter 17. Workplace Flexibility in Professional Organizations: A Study of Canadian Hospitals -- Chapter 18. The Reshaping of 'Flexible' Labour?: European Policy Perspectives -- List of Contributors -- Backmatter

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