Flexible organizations and the new working life : a European perspective /
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| Imprint: | Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009. |
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| Description: | xiii, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7708873 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- The ambiguity of flexibility
- The impact of flexibility on employee morale and involvement: large-sample findings for UK workplaces
- Whose flexibility? British employees' responses to flexible capitalism
- A package of flexibility?
- Protected, firm-specific, and scarce: explanations of non-standard forms of employment
- Combining flexibility and workers' motivation: lessons from a study on Italian and French hospitals
- Striving for flexibility, attaining resistance: culture clashes in the Swedish rail industry
- The re-organization of manufacturing and the emergence of a flexible economy in the UK
- The quest for flexibility and governmental regulations of working life: the case of the 2005 Norwegian worker protection and working environment act
- What's special about the Nordic countries? On flexibility, globalisation and working life
- Concluding remarks. The complex dynamism of the flexible organization
- Index