Jennifer Lynn Roney

Webs of Resistence in a Newly Privatized Polish Firm (eBook, ePUB)

Workers React to Organizational Transformation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135687335
• Artikelnr.: 40830589

Autorenporträt

Roney, Jennifer Lynn

Inhaltsangabe

Exhibits
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
The Research Question
The Meaning of Culture in this Study
Webs of Resistance-Meaning Behind the Title of this Book
The Case
Research Approach and Assumption
Ethnographic Authority
The Organization of the Book
Chapter 2: Culture, TQM and Poland
Culture
Total Quality Management
Poland
Chapter 3: Concentric Circles of Polish Life
The Country
The Community
The Company
Chapter 4: Research Design and Methods
Research Design: Choosing Ethnography as Method
Data Collection Methods
Data Analysis
The Ethnographic Tale
Chapter 5: Social Organization
Spies with Television Sets
Influences on Social Organization
Cultural Values and Assumptions
Chapter 6: Patterns of Shared Mindsets
Insecurity and Instability
Trust
Distrust of Government
Distrust Within the Community
Distrust Within the Organization
Responsibility
Individualism and Collectivism
The Struggle between Opposing Cultural Tendencies
Summary-Patterns of Shared Mindsets
Chapter 7: Resistance to Change
The Quality Director and The Direction of Quality
Influences on The TQM Philosophy
TQM Values and Assumptions
TQM at the Lockem Factory
Summary Conflicting Values
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Contributions
Implication: Fatalism Interpretation? Reflections on the Process-Field Study Abroad
Endnotes
Appendices
A. Company Data
B. Research Protocol
C. The Researcher as Instrument
D. Information
Trust Question
F. Quality Wheel
References
Index