Damian Grimshaw, Huw Beynon, Jill Etc Rubery

Managing Employment Change

The New Realities of Work

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at how large organizations have managed and adapted to changing conditions of employment shaped by the recent economic and political environment. Additional data are presented based on evidence from other significant actors such as agency employment firms and trade unions. The book also engages with important North American debates on the changing nature of work, careers, and employment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 541g
• ISBN-13: 9780199248704
• ISBN-10: 0199248702
• Artikelnr.: 21980892

Autorenporträt

Damian Grimshaw is Professor of Employment Studies and Director of Research at the Work and Equalities Institute at the University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I: Managing Employment Change in a Shifting Environment
* 1: Understanding Change at Work
* 2: Seven Case Studies: An Introduction
* 3: Patterns of Work and Labour
* Part II: Innovation in Employment Practices
* 4: Dimensions of Employment Change
* 5: Staffing the Organization: New Patterns of Entry and Exit
* 6: Bridging the Skills Gap? New Training Provision and Work
Organization
* 7: The End of Standard Working Time?
* Part III: The Costs of Change
* 8: Drawing Together the Threads: A Question of Labour Costs and Work
Intensification
* 9: Work Intensification and Forms of Control
* Conclusion. Managing Employment Change: Who's Managing What?