Flexible organizations and the new working life
Subtitle: a European perspective
By: by Egil J. Skorstad and Helge Ramsdal.
Contributors: Ramsdal, Helge.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754674207; 9780754691518
Subjects: Hours of labor, Flexible -- Europe -- Cross-cultural studies; Organizational culture -- Europe -- Cross-cultural studies; Organizational behavior -- Europe -- Cross-cultural studies; Quality of work life -- Europe -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Helge Ramsdal and Egil J. Skorstad; title: The ambiguity of flexibility / Egil J. Skorstad; title: The impact of flexibility on employee morale and involvement : large-sample findings for UK workplaces / Michael Rose; title: Whose flexibility? British employees' responses to flexible capitalism / Harriet Bradley; title: A package of flexibility? / Birgitta Eriksson and Jan Ch. Karlsson; title: Protected, firm-specific, and scarce : explanations of non-standard forms of employment / R. Øystein Strøm; title: Combining flexibility and worker's motivation : lessons from a study on Italian and French hospitals / Philippe R. Mossé; title: Striving for flexibility, attaining resistance : culture clashes in the Swedish rail industry / Henrietta Huzell; title: The re-organization of manufacturing and the emergence of a flexible economy in the UK / Stephen Ackroyd; title: The quest for flexibility and governmental regulations of working life-the case of the 2005 Norwegian Worker Protection and Working Environment Act / Helge Ramsdal; title: Reflections on the relation between flexibility, globalisation and working life / Tor Claussen; title: Concluding remarks. The complex dynamism of the flexible organization / Egil J. Skorstad.