Working on the quality of working life : Developments in Europe
Section One: Introduction -- 1. Project goals and approach: increasing actionable Q.W.L knowledge -- Section Two: Quality of working life improvements in Europe: National programmes and perspectives -- 2. The action programme of the German federal government: Research on the humanization of working life -- 3. Q.W.L. developments in Holland: an overview -- 4. Swedish industrial democracy, 1977: progress and new government initiatives -- 5. Historical background and action plans towards improving the quality of working life in the United Kingdom -- 6. A general overview of the current Q.W.L. scene in Italy: Notes on the situation in 1974, 1975 and 1977 -- 7. Problems of middle management in France: Their special position regarding work reorganization -- Section Three: Action research reports: Production and technical units -- 8. Warehouse workers reorganize their own work organization -- 9. The Volkswagenwerk AG project within the framework of the research programme ‘Humanization of Working Life’ of the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology: Comparison of work structures in machine production (engine assembly) -- 10. Breaking the deadlock: The search for new strategies for Q.W.L. -- 11. Democratizing work and social life on ships: A report from the experiment on board M.S. Balao -- 12. ‘Action learning’ among unskilled women workers -- 13. Developing new forms of work organization in a new chemical plant in France -- 14. The starting-up of a new plant organized in multi-skilled production groups -- 15. Introduction of a procedure of change: An example of operation -- 16. From training to job redesign in a chemical plant in Italy -- Section Four: Action research reports: Administrative and office units -- 17. Participative work design: A contribution to democracy in the office and on the shop floor -- 18. Clerical employees in X Y Z Company reorganize their department -- 19. Project: ‘Humanization and Participation’ in Centraal Beheer -- 20. Participatory research leads to employee-managed change: Some experience from a Norwegian bank -- Section Five: Action research reports: Public service -- 21. Experiment at Triemli Hospital: Environmental and physical changes in a hospital ward and their impacts on the behaviour and the social interactions of patients, visitors, and nurses -- 22. The implementation of team nursing: A change process and research project in a Dutch general hospital -- 23. Job satisfaction in the Civil Service in the United Kingdom -- Section Six: Trade union-oriented issues -- 24. The Demos project: Democratic control and planning in working life -- 25. The worker-union-management interface in workplace changes: A case study on problems of participation -- 26. Trade union involvement in retraining to develop new patterns of work organization -- Section Seven: Off-site training programmes -- 27. Participative redesign projects in Norway, summarizing the first five years of a strategy to democratize the design process in work organization -- 28. Participation in organization redesign: A five company Scottish workshop and later review meeting -- 29. Setting up a sociotechnical training programme at an engineering school in France: 1976/1977, a transitional year -- Section Eight: Concluding notes -- 30. Concluding notes -- Appendix: Addresses of contributors to the volume.
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1979
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Institutions: | International Council for the Quality of Working Life |
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Dordrecht : Springer |
Subject: | Arbeitsbedingungen | Working conditions | EU-Staaten | EU countries | Lebensqualität | Quality of life | Arbeitswelt | World of work |
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