Management and the Worker
Management and the Worker

Author: Fritz Jules Roethlisberger

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 0415279879

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This is the official account of the experiments carried out at the Hawthorne Works of the Eastern Electric Company in Chicago. These were divided into test room studies, interviewing studies and observational studies. The test room studies were experiments into what variables in a workplace environment might affect worker fatigue. The findings of these tests led to extensive interviewing on the attitudes of the workers. The final phase of the Hawthorne experiment focused on social factors, using techniques of cultural anthropology to observe small working groups. The results of these experiments profoundly influenced the Human Relations movement.

Worker Productivity in Operations Management
Worker Productivity in Operations Management

Author: Diwas Kc

Publisher:

Published: 2020-04-15

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9781680836660

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This monograph reviews the existing literature in operations management on worker productivity and outlines interesting and promising areas of future research. It looks at the individual worker as the atomic unit of analysis in order to examine the drivers that impact worker output.

Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina
Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina

Author: Marcelo Vieta

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-01-07

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13: 9004268952

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In Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina, Marcelo Vieta homes in on the history, consolidation, and socio-political dimensions of Argentina’s empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (worker-recuperated enterprises), a worker-led company occupation movement that has surged since the turn-of-the-millennium and the country’s neo-liberal crisis.

The New Ideal Worker
The New Ideal Worker

Author: Mireia las Heras Maestro

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-06-29

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 3030124770

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Many managers and organizations still assume that employees who devote long hours to their jobs with no family interference are “ideal workers”. However, this assumption has negative consequences for employees, their families and, more interestingly, for their organizations. This book provides a wealth of empirical evidence from around the globe, as well as innovative conceptual frameworks, to help practitioners and researchers alike to go beyond the classic notion of the “ideal worker” and to rethink what companies actually need from their employees. As it demonstrates, doing so will be beneficial for countless men and women, and for society at large.