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"Updated to reflect the lessons learned during the last decade - a time that has seen failures as well as successes in self-directed workplaces - this seminal work provides step-by-step guidance on such crucial team leadership skills as coaching, business analysis, barrier busting, facilitating groups, and more. Included are new chapters on creating accountability, motivating and coordinating knowledge teams, and leading virtual teams."--Jacket.
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These expert authors explain how to empower the workforce by moving from a control-and-be-controlled mindset to a supportive, responsibility-centered environment in which all employees have the opportunity to do their best. They explain how to build responsibility and trust, and they define the three essential keys to making empowerment work in large and small organizations: 1. sharing information with everyone; 2. creating autonomy through boundaries;...
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During the early years of this century, the classic factory system of the industrial revolution evolved rapidly into a new, identifiable form that would characterize American and world industry for most of the twentieth century. This transformation, as important for industrial managers, workers, and consumers as the initial creation of the factory, is the subject of Daniel Nelson's illuminating synthesis, updated and expanded to include the scholarship...
6) Work in America: report of a special task force to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
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Reports on the personal, social, and economic function of work, citing job repetition and monotony as the major source of worker dissatisfaction in the U.S.
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Examines the gendered nature of social reproduction (i.e. household chores, child care and biological reproduction) and export production in the foreign-owned assembly plants in Nogales and Ciadad Madero at the border with the United States. Studies the intersection of class and gender dynamics in the radical transformation of Mexican industrial strategy, from a State-led import substitution emphasis to a neoliberal export-orientation based on transnational...
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"Picking Up the Linen Threads is a study into the folklore of those employed in the Linen Industry in Northern Ireland. The book starts with a look at the history of linen manufacture in Ireland, from the time of home spinning through to the factory era. The different categories of linen workers, such as doffers, handle holders, piecers and pickers are mentioned with a brief description of their role in the overall manufacturing process. The book...
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Challenging the prevailing idea that labor markets are governed by universal economic processes, this significant work argues instead that labor markets develop in tandem with social and political institutions, and thus function in locally specific ways. Focusing on the complex social processes that lie at the heart of the labor market, the author offers a provocative new perspective and proposes new ways of conducting research in the area.
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