- Item type
- Book
- Language
- anglais
- Pages
- xii, 259 p.
- Publication year
- 2000
- ISBN
- 0-8014-8655-6
- Content notes
- Preface --- Chapter 1. Manufacturing in the Twenty-First century --- Chapter 2. Discretionary effort and the organization of work --- Chapter 3. Market dynamics and work organization in the steel industry --- Chapter 4. Market dynamics and work organization in the apparel industry --- Chapter 5. Market dynamics and work organization in the medical electronic instruments and imaging industry --- Chapter 6. Workplace transformation and its effects on plants and workers --- Chapter 7. Measuring the components of a high-performance work system --- Chapter 8. Performance effects of high-performance work systems --- Chapter 9. High-performance work systems and worker outcomes --- Chapter 10. Effect of high-performance practices on earnings --- Chapter 11. Work systems and productivity growth --- Bibliography --- Index --- About EPI.
"Manufacturing Advantage provides the best assessment available of the effectiveness of high-performance work systems. Freestanding chapters near the end of the book provide full documentation of research data without interrupting the narrative flow."- from worldcat.
Preface --- Chapter 1. Manufacturing in the Twenty-First century --- Chapter 2. Discretionary effort and the organization of work --- Chapter 3. Market dynamics and work organization in the steel industry --- Chapter 4. Market dynamics and work organization in the apparel industry --- Chapter 5. Market dynamics and work organization in the medical electronic instruments and imaging industry --- Chapter 6. Workplace transformation and its effects on plants and workers --- Chapter 7. Measuring the components of a high-performance work system --- Chapter 8. Performance effects of high-performance work systems --- Chapter 9. High-performance work systems and worker outcomes --- Chapter 10. Effect of high-performance practices on earnings --- Chapter 11. Work systems and productivity growth --- Bibliography --- Index --- About EPI..
