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Title:

Flexible organizations and the new working life : a European perspective / edited by Egil J. Skorstad, Helge Ramsdal.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xiii, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Flextime--Europe--Cross-cultural studies.
Corporate culture--Europe--Cross-cultural studies.
Organizational behavior--Europe--Cross-cultural studies.
Quality of work life--Europe--Cross-cultural studies.

Other Authors:

Skorstad, Egil, 1945-
Ramsdal, Helge

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Helge Ramsdal, Egil J. Skorstad -- The ambiguity of flexibility / Egil J. Skorstad -- The impact of flexibility on employee morale and involvement : large-sample findings for UK workplaces / Michael Rose -- Whose flexibility? British employees' responses to flexible capitalism / Harriet Bradley -- A package of flexibility? / Birgitta Eriksson, Jan Ch. Karlsson -- Protected, firm-specific, and scarce : explanations of non-standard forms of employment / R. ©ystein Str©ım -- Combining flexibility and worker's motivation : lessons from a study on Italian and French hospitals / Philippe R. Moss©♭ -- Striving for flexibility, attaining resistance : culture clashes in the Swedish rail industry / Henrietta Huzell -- The re-organization of manufacturing and the emergence of a flexible economy in the UK / Stephen Ackroyd -- The quest for flexibility and governmental regulations of working life : the case of the 2005 Norwegian Worker Protection and Working Environment Act / Helge Ramsdal -- What's special about the Nordic countries? On flexibility, globalization and working life / Tor Claussen -- Concluding remarks. The complex dynamism of the flexible organization / Egil J. Skorstad.

ISBN:

0754691519 (ebk.)
9780754691518 (ebk.)
0754674207 (alk. paper)
9780754674207 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)272305652

LCCN:

2008048575

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)