摘要:

Employment in UK retail banking has begun to decline as all the major institutions shed workers. Technological, organizational and market‐driven reasons for the job losses in the major clearing banks are discussed. Irrevocable long‐term changes in employers' industrial relations and human resource strategies are identified as necessary accompaniments to pushing the current retrenchment through in the context of a developing general crisis in employment relati

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1992.tb00023.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Drawing on primary and secondary sources the authors argue that the JIT/TQM manufacturing system intensifies work as a result of increased surveillance and monitoring of workers' activities, heightened responsibility and accountability, the harnessing of peer pressure within ‘teams' and via ‘customers', and the fostering of ‘involvement’ in waste elimination and the continuous improvement of the production

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1992.tb00024.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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The oversimplified analysis of subcontracting in terms of the relations between small and large firms needs to be abandoned in favour of a broader societal approach. Drawing on empirical evidence from Britain and France it is argued that such an approach can identify a wider range of political, social and economic factors affecting the decision to subcontract.

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1992.tb00025.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Drawing on empirical material from a research project on new technology and skills, the author discusses the scope for personnel strategies within a context of varying social constraints. He concludes that within a given production and at a given level of technology, a variation of strategies for staff training and development may emerge. It is argued that the style of management plays a considerable role in determining job design and skill development.

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1992.tb00026.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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This article examines the introduction of new process technology into a local labour market in the late 1980s and relates variations in adoption rates to establishment characteristics. The authors highlight the contrasts in the employment outcomes and training requirements in adopting and non‐adopting establishments and find that ‘adopters' expect more changes in employment, more skills shortages and have a greater awareness of future training ne

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1992.tb00027.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Book reviews in this article:Poor Work: Disadvantage and the Division of Labour Phillip Brown and Richard Scase (eds.)Critical Theory of Technology Andrew FeenbergBuilding Capitalism: Historical Change&the Labour Process in the Production of the Built Environment Linda ClarkeRestructuring a Traditional Industry: Construction Employment and Skills in Europe Helen Rainbird and Gerd Syben (eds.)Science Policy Research: Implications and Applications Darcy F. De Almeida (ed.)Connections: New Ways of Working in the Networked Organisation L. Sproull and S. KieslerOrganizational Structure and Information Technology Jon HarringtonManufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments Richard Gillespie

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1992.tb00028.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY