Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction / Helge Ramsdal, Egil J. Skorstad -- The ambiguity of flexibility / Egil J. Skorstad -- The impact of flexibility on employee morale and involvement : large-sample findings for UK workplaces / Michael Rose -- Whose flexibility? British employees' responses to flexible capitalism / Harriet Bradley -- A package of flexibility? / Birgitta Eriksson, Jan Ch. Karlsson -- Protected, firm-specific, and scarce : explanations of non-standard forms of employment / R. Øystein Strøm -- Combining flexibility and worker's motivation : lessons from a study on Italian and French hospitals / Philippe R. Mossé -- Striving for flexibility, attaining resistance : culture clashes in the Swedish rail industry / Henrietta Huzell -- The re-organization of manufacturing and the emergence of a flexible economy in the UK / Stephen Ackroyd -- The quest for flexibility and governmental regulations of working life : the case of the 2005 Norwegian Worker Protection and Working Environment Act / Helge Ramsdal -- What's special about the Nordic countries? On flexibility, globalization and working life / Tor Claussen -- Concluding remarks. The complex dynamism of the flexible organization / Egil J. Skorstad |
Summary |
What are we actually talking about when we talk of flexibility in organizational settings? Do flexible forms of organization lead to varied, challenging and autonomous work or do they have a negative impact on working conditions? These questions are confronted by a group of specialist authors, who discuss the concept of flexibility in relation to employment practices, organizational structure, cultural peculiarities and network arrangements in France, Italy, Norway, Sweden and the UK |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Flextime -- Europe -- Cross-cultural studies
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Corporate culture -- Europe -- Cross-cultural studies
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Organizational behavior -- Europe -- Cross-cultural studies
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Quality of work life -- Europe -- Cross-cultural studies
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Corporate culture
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Flextime
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Organizational behavior
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Quality of work life
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Europe
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Cross-cultural studies
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Skorstad, Egil, 1945-
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Ramsdal, Helge.
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ISBN |
9780754691518 |
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0754691519 |
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9780754674207 |
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0754674207 |
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