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A Diversity of New Work Organization: Human-centered, Lean and In-between

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Social Reconstructions of the World Automobile Industry

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Abstract

In response to changing world markets, intensified competition, new technologies and worker demands, managers everywhere are required to reorganize work in important and sometimes profound ways. Such innovation, part of larger processes of industrial restructuring and production reorganization, is one of the central features of the modern workplace. But the new processes and impacts of work reorganization can be interpreted in different ways.

This paper has also been published in the German journal Industrielle Beziehung, vol. 1, no. 1, 1994, pp. 39-61.

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  1. State University of New York, Brockport, USA

    Frederic C. Deyo (Professor of Sociology) (Professor of Sociology)

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Turner, L., Auer, P. (1996). A Diversity of New Work Organization: Human-centered, Lean and In-between. In: Deyo, F.C. (eds) Social Reconstructions of the World Automobile Industry. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24897-1_8

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