A Flexible Future?: Prospects for Employment and Organization (de Gruyter Studies in Organization, 30)

The series is aimed specifically at publishing peer reviewed reviews and contributions presented at workshops and conferences. Each volume is associated with a particular conference, symposium or workshop. These events cover various topics within pure and applied mathematics and provide up-to-date coverage of new developments, methods and applications. 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 364 pp., hardcover, ex library, else text clean & binding tight. *Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country* - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Editors, Paul Blyton And Jonathan Morris. The Contributions ... Arise From A Conference Held At Cardiff Business School In September 1989--pref. Includes Bibliographical References.