Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the development and diffusion of work organisation models
- Critically analyses the effects of these models on worker's health, learning, innovation and efficiency
- Includes case studies, reflective questions, learning objectives and exercises to improve learning
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This textbook provides an overview of organisation models used in practice from over a century ago to the present day. It outlines the effects these models have on efficiency, learning, innovation and workers’ health and offers critical reflections for students. Some of the models covered are Taylorism, bureaucracy, the socio-technical school, process organisation such as lean production, learning organisations, knowledge management, project organising including agile, platform economy, professional organisations, new public management and sustainable organisations.
Featuring learning objectives and reflective questions for students of organisation studies and design, this textbook has a pedagogical structure based on the division of work and the coordination of work. Conclusions are presented on contemporary work organisation models’ impact on working life, ultimately encouraging students to ask the question, how can we create more sustainable work organisations.
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
P-O Börnfelt is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg in Sweden. His Work Organisation in Practice textbook was first published in Swedish, and it is used as a textbook at several universities in Sweden. His research focus is on whistleblowing, voice and silence at work.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Work Organisation in Practice
Book Subtitle: From Taylorism to Sustainable Work Organisations
Authors: P-O Börnfelt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21667-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21666-4Published: 28 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21669-5Published: 28 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-21667-1Published: 27 May 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 181
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Organization, Business and Management, general, Human Resource Management