TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blyton,Paul
AU  - Morris,Jonathan
TI  - A Flexible Future?: Prospects for Employment and Organization
T2  - De Gruyter Studies in Organization Ser.
SN  - 3110863340
AV  - HD29 
U1  - 331.25 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Berlin/Boston
PB  - De Gruyter, Inc.
KW  - Industrial management
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Labor contract
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - List of Contributors; Intro; 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 IndustryChapter 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 IndustryChapter 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
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