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Author : Ruskin College. Trade Union Research Unit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (849 download)
Download or read book The Flexible Firm and the Shape of Jobs to Come written by Ruskin College. Trade Union Research Unit and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Blyton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110863340
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book A Flexible Future? written by Paul Blyton and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen Christensen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801457203
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Workplace Flexibility written by Kathleen Christensen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although today's family has changed, the workplace has not—and the resulting one-size-fits-all workplace has become profoundly mismatched to the needs of an increasingly diverse and varied workforce. As changes in the composition of the workforce exert new demands on employers, considerable attention is being paid to how workplaces can be structured more flexibly to achieve the goals of employers and employees. Workplace Flexibility brings together sixteen essays authored by leading experts in economics, demography, political science, law, sociology, anthropology, and management. Collectively, they make the case for workplace flexibility, as well as examine existing business practices and public policy regarding flexibility in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Workplace Flexibility underscores the need to realign the structure of work in time and place with the needs of the changing workforce. Considering the positive and negative consequences for employer and employee alike, the authors argue that, although there is not an easy solution to creating and implementing flexibility practices—in the United States or abroad—redesigning the workplace is essential if today's workers are effectively to meet the demands of life and work and if employers are successfully able to attract and retain top talent and improve performance.
Author : Zsolt Boros
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (816 download)
Download or read book The Flexible Firm, Financial Performance and Employee Well-being written by Zsolt Boros and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workplace flexibility has captivated the attention of both Human Resources academics and practitioners. Over the years there have been multiple studies evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of workplace flexibility, focusing either on the employee or employer perspective. In spite of the ample body of research, there are few empirical studies that simultaneously assess the benefits and drawback for both employers and employees while considering flexible work practices in relation to each other. This study tested the idea that there are mutual benefits for both parties and examined in what format does flexibility present these mutual benefits. In undertaking this task the study utilized a national level survey (WERS 2004) and proposed a level of analysis across multiple organizations as opposed to individual workplaces. The results show that the proposed mutual benefits have not been identified, however it revealed that, contrary to authoritative standpoints flexibility seems to benefit the employees more than the employers. Limitations of the study, further directions and practical implications are discussed.
Author : Helge Ramsdal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131713480X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Flexible Organizations and the New Working Life written by Helge Ramsdal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 including Stephen Ackroyd, Harriet Bradley, Jan Ch. Karlsson, Philippe Mossé and Michael Rose, 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. While the question of workplace flexibility has been much debated in recent years, the main issues discussed have been the practice of non-standard forms of employment such as part-time work. This book is distinctive in dealing with flexibility related to organizational arrangements, organizational culture and network arrangements, and in assessing the combined effects of different arrangements in terms of manpower, structure, culture and networks on flexibility.
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Publisher : University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences
ISBN 13 : 8676802556
Total Pages : 2004 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (768 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the XIII International Symposium SymOrg 2012: Innovative Management and Business Performance written by and published by University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences . This book was released on 2012-06-03 with total page 2004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Jordhus-Lier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317751752
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book A Hospitable World? written by David Jordhus-Lier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hospitality and tourism sector is a large and rapidly expanding industry worldwide, and can rightfully be described as a vehicle of globalisation. Hotels are among the cornerstones of the industry often drawing workers from the most vulnerable segments of multicultural labour markets, accommodating and entertaining tourists and business travelers from around the world. This book explores the organisation of work, worker identities and worker strategies in hotel workplaces, as they are located in heterogeneous labour markets being changed by processes of globalisation. It uses an explicitly geographical approach to understand how different groups of workers experience and respond to challenges in the hospitality industry, and is based on recent theoretical debates and empirical research on hotel workplaces in cities as different as Oslo, Goa, London, Las Vegas and Toronto. A multi-scalar analysis is taken where concrete worker bodies and their physical, emotional and embodied labour are seen in relation to, among other aspects: the regulation of national and regional labour markets, city governments with global city ambitions, and global corporate actors and labour migration patterns. The book sheds light on the hotel workplace as a hierarchical and fragmented social space as well as addressing questions on worker mobility, the fragmentation of work, scales of organisation and how workers can help shape the regulation of their industry. This timely volume brings together contributions from international academics and is valuable reading for all those interested in hospitality, tourism, human geography and globalisation.
Author : M. Jakšic
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137402229
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Innovative Management and Firm Performance written by M. Jakšic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on business firms as catalysts and agents of social and economic change, and explores the argument that sustainable development is the perfect opportunity for businesses to strengthen the evolving notion of corporate social responsibility, while achieving long-term growth through innovation, research and development.
Author : European Trade Union Institute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Flexibility and Jobs written by European Trade Union Institute and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade union pub. Comparison of trade union attitudes towards labour mobility and rearrangement of working time to absorb structural unemployment in OECD countries - examines employment creation measures, labour market trends, wage structures, etc.; expresses concern over wage differentials, labour market segmentation, and the social implications of overtime, shift work and flexible hours of work. Graphs, references, statistical tables.
Author : Kay Dickinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190296143
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Off Key written by Kay Dickinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Off Key, Kay Dickinson offers a compelling study of how certain alliances of music and film are judged aesthetic failures. Based on a fascinating and wide-ranging body of film-music mismatches, and using contemporary reviews and histories of the turn to post-industrialization, the book expands the ways in which the union of the film and music businesses can be understood. Moving beyond the typical understanding of film music that privileges the score, Off Key also incorporates analyses of rock 'n' roll movies, composer biopics, and pop singers crossing over into acting. By doing this, it provides a fuller picture of how two successful entertainment sectors have sought out synergistic strategies, ones whose alleged "failures" have much to tell about the labor practices of the creative industries, as well as our own relationship to them and to work itself. A provocative and politically-conscious look at music-image relations, Off Key will appeal to students and scholars of film music, cinema studies, media studies, cultural studies, and labor history.
Author : Nina Witoszek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351765620
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Modernity written by Nina Witoszek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351765633, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. In the 21st century, Norway, Denmark and Sweden remain the icons of fair societies, with high economic productivity and quality of life. But they are also an enigma in a cultural-evolutionary sense: though by no means following the same socio-economic formula, they are all cases of a "non-hubristic", socially sustainable modernity that puzzles outside observers. Using Nordic welfare states as its laboratory, Sustainable Modernity combines evolutionary and socio-cultural perspectives to illuminate the mainsprings of what the authors call the "well-being society". The main contention is that the Nordic uniqueness is not merely the outcome of one particular set of historical institutional or political arrangements, or sheer historical luck; rather, the high welfare creation inherent in the Nordic model has been predicated on a long and durable tradition of social cooperation, which has interacted with global competitive forces. Hence the socially sustainable Nordic modernity should be approached as an integrated and tightly orchestrated ecosystem based on a complex interplay of cooperative and competitive strategies within and across several domains: normative-cultural, socio-political and redistributive. The key question is: Can the Nordic countries uphold the balance of competition and cooperation and reproduce their resilience in the age of globalization, cultural collisions, the digital economy, the fragmentation of the work/life division, and often intrusive EU regulation? With contributors providing insights from the humanities, the social sciences and evolutionary science, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of political science, sociology, history, institutional economics, Nordic studies and human evolution studies.
Author : Bas A.S. Koene
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317808762
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Management and Organization of Temporary Agency Work written by Bas A.S. Koene and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades the use of flexible employment relations has increased in most developed countries. The growth of temporary agency work constitutes a significant component of this development. Organizations are now facing the challenges of managing a ‘blended workforce’, i.e. a workforce consisting of both direct hires and contractors. At a time when Europe, as well as the rest of the world, is facing enhanced global competition and a severe labor market crisis, an understanding of temporary employment practices becomes all the more acute. With the evolution of the use of agency work in the Western world over the past decade, the chapters in this volume show how a focus on the management and organization of temporary agency work can be helpful to see possibilities and pitfalls for the use of temporary employment in the wake of changed employment practices and challenges to labor market stability and welfare structures. Together, the new case studies presented in this volume provide a wide scope of analysis of the organization and management of temporary agency work, offering a much-needed contribution to the discussion of issues and priorities that guide and shape organizational practices today. Its particular uniqueness lies in the empirical richness and variety of local case studies and the way in which these are related to wider policy aims, ideological shifts, and the dynamics of organizational practice, with a particular focus on the organization and management of ‘blended workforces’.
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Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN 13 : 9789291203420
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Nordic Labour Market Policies and Labour Market Research written by and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eko Ruddy Cahyadi
Publisher : European Alliance for Innovation
ISBN 13 : 1631902997
Total Pages : 1335 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (319 download)
Download or read book ICoSMI 2020 written by Eko Ruddy Cahyadi and published by European Alliance for Innovation. This book was released on with total page 1335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the proceeding of the International Conference on Sustainable Management and Innovation (ICoSMI 2020) that was successfully held on 14-16 September 2020 using an online platform. The conference was mainly organized by the Department of Management IPB University in collaboration with Leibniz University of Hannover, Universiti Putera Malaysia, Kasetsart University, Tun Hussein Onn University of Malaysia, Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University, Deakin University, University of Adelaide, Forum Manajemen Indonesia, FE Pakuan University, FE Gajah Mada University FEB University of North Sumatra and FEB Andalas University, SBM Bandung Institute of Technology, FEB Lampung University, Perbanas Institute Jakarta, FE Bina Nusantara University, and SBE Prasetiya Mulya University. This conference has brought academic researchers, business practitioners as well as graduate students together to exchange their experiences and research results about most aspects of innovation and sustainability, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. About 402 delegates across the world including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Spain, China, and India have attended and presented their research works in the conference. The proceeding consists of 80 high-quality papers that were selected from more than 250 submitted papers. The papers are classified into 12 themes, namely Finance for Sustainability, Industry 4.0 and Future Business Sustainability, Policy and Strategy for Sustainable Innovation and Supply Chain, Smart Agriculture Management for Environmental Sustainability, and Sustainable Human Resources. Finally, we would like to express the greatest thanks to all colleagues in the steering and organizing committee for their cooperation in administering and arranging the conference as well as reviewers for their academic works and commitment to reviewing papers.
Author : V. Vaiman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230277527
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Talent Management of Knowledge Workers written by V. Vaiman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freelancers possess a tremendous amount of knowledge, skill, and ability. Identifying, defining, and implementing talent management strategies aimed at ensuring the effective management of non-traditional knowledge employees in an organization are the key themes of this book.
Author : Bjørn Gustavsen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027217769
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Development Coalitions in Working Life written by Bjørn Gustavsen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the need to utilise knowledge from social research in processes of development in working life is growing, there is also a growing recognition of the problems posed by this utilisation. As the belief in universal reason and general theory about topics like work organization and leadership has faded, research has to find a place as a local development actor. As such it is part of broad groups of actors, or development coalitions, as they are called in this book. Each coalition acquires unique characteristics and demands unique contributions from participating researchers. At the same time there is still a need for generalisable knowledge since all local processes are linked to global ones. Using an ongoing research-supported development program in Norwegian working life as the basis, this book explores the issues and problems associated with a new role for research as a mediator, not between general theory and local application, but between local workplace actors and global trends. The program in case encompasses a substantial number of enterprises many of them organized in networks and more than 50 researchers organized in seven groups, or modules.
Author : Harvard Business Review
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1647822297
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (478 download)
Download or read book The Future of Work: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review written by Harvard Business Review and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future is here. How is your organization responding? Amid the turbulence of a global pandemic, worldwide social justice movements, and accelerated digital transformation, one thing is clear—work will no longer be the same. Employees now expect a flexible, inclusive workplace and a deeper connection to their employer. Organizations must commit to doing good for their people and communities. What should you and your company be doing to adapt? The Future of Work: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will provide you with today's most essential thinking about creating a work-from-anywhere organization, harnessing AI as part of your team, creating an inclusive culture, and building a purpose-driven organization. Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind? Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas—and prepare you and your company for the future.
