This paper investigates the determination and consequences of organizational changes (OC) in a panel of British and French establishments. Organizational changes include the decentralization of authority, delayering of managerial functions, and increased multitasking. We argue that OC and skills...

L'objet de cet article est de montrer en quoi une méthode mixte permet d’analyser et de comprendre les effets de pratiques organisationnelles caractéristiques de la lean production, sur la satisfaction et la santé au travail et ce, dans le contexte français. Les résultats montrent que...

This paper presents a decision support tool used in testing and trial laboratories. It gives an optimum quality control in these types of laboratories.

Mit der Einfuehrung von Ganzheitlichen Produktionssystemen wird in der deutschen Industrie eine neue Entwicklungsstufe betrieblicher Rationalisierung verbunden: Es sollen bislang wenig verbundene Rationalisierungsmassnahmen ‚ganzheitlich‘ zusammengefuehrt werden. Der reale Stellenwert...

While the need for, and the value of, Continuous Improvement (CI) Management in practice is well established; their successful implementation has proven problematic. Employee resistance, due to business cultural incompatibility, is considered a major cause. Unfortunately, current budgeting systems...

Innovationen werden als wichtige Erfolgsstrategie fuer Unternehmen gesehen. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, ob es auch Aufgabe fuer Betriebsraete sein kann, langfristig die Innovationsstrategie der Unternehmen zu beeinflussen und die Innovationsbereitschaft der Beschaeftigten anzuregen. In diesem...

We measure the impact of a drastic new technology for producing steel--the minimill--on industry-wide productivity in the US steel industry, using unique plant-level data between 1963 and 2002. The sharp increase in the industry's productivity is linked to this new technology through two...

Existing studies of supplier involvement in new product development have mainly focused on project-related short-term processes and success-factors. This study validates and extends an existing exploratory framework, which comprises both long-term strategic processes and short-term operational...

The implementation of new forms of organization of the work (NFWO) has been recurrently applied in the medium and large corporations, especially those whose activity is centered in traditional industrial sectors. With virtues and inconvenients the NFWO seems to be apparently to be kept out of...