In almost any industry, the day-to-day lived experiences of workers directly shape production processes. Those experiences are of fundamental importance to a range of managerial concerns including organisational behaviour and human resource management, organisational safety and risk management,...

This book offers important insights into the intricacies of energy trading and risk management to students and professionals in the liberalized electricity and natural gas markets. In its opening chapter, the book delves into fundamental concepts, including price formation on wholesale markets....

Was sind Bedingungen und Wirkungen einer kollektiven Arbeitszeitplanung? Diese Frage stand im Vordergrund der Evaluation und Prozessbegleitung eines im Krankenhaus durchgeführten Arbeitszeitprojekts.Im Rahmen von im Jahr 2004 durchgeführten Tarifverhandlungen in einer Unternehmensgruppe des...

We investigate dynamic coordination among members of a problem solving team who receive private signals about which of their actions are required for a (static) coordinated solution and who have repeated opportunities to explore different action combinations. In this environment ordinal...

We investigate dynamic coordination among members of a problem-solving team who receive private signals about which of their actions are required for a (static) coordinated solution and who have repeated opportunities to explore different action combinations. In this environment ordinal...

Die Deutsche Post AG hat mit der Unterzeichnung des Tarifvertrages Nr. 462/463zum 1.9.1994 mit der Deutschen Postgewerkschaft vereinbart, durch die Einführungvon Gruppenarbeit im Zustelldienst neue Arbeitsformen zu erproben. Die Erprobungumfaßt mit dem 5-Tage-Modell (Rolli-Modell), dem...

This paper addresses the question of organization of work and efficient reorganization. An emerging literature is basically concerned with the polar model of high involvement (holistic) vs. traditional (Tayloristic) work organizations. This paper extends in two ways: First, the polar case is...