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Reinventing the workplace : how business and employees can both win
- Title
- Reinventing the workplace : how business and employees can both win / David I. Levine.
- Author
- Levine, David I., 1960-
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, ©1995.
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- Description
- xii, 222 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- What is the future shape of the American workplace? This question is the focus of a national debate as the country strives to find a system that provides a good standard of living for workers while allowing U.S. businesses to succeed at home and compete abroad. In this book, David Levine uses case studies and extensive evidence to show that greater employee involvement in the workplace can significantly increase both productivity and worker satisfaction.
- Employee involvement has many labels, including high-performance workplaces, continuous improvement, or total quality management. The strongest underlying theme is that frontline employees who are actually performing the work will always have insights about how to improve their tasks. Employee involvement encompasses policies that, at the minimal end, permit workers to suggest improvement, and at the substantive end, create an integrated strategy to give all employees the ability, motivation, and authority to constantly improve the organization's operations.
- Despite the evidence of its benefits, substantive employee involvement remains the exception in the U.S. work force. Levine explores the obstacles to its spread, which include legal barriers, capital markets that discourage investment in people, organizational inertia, and the costs of implementation. Levine concludes with specific public policy recommendations for increasing the extent of employee involvement, including changes in government regulation of capital and labor markets to encourage long-term investment and labor-management cooperation. He recommends macroeconomic policies to sustain high employment, less regulation for high-involvement workplaces, and training in schools and on the job to teach high-involvement practices. He also suggests new roles for unions and provides a checklist for employers to assess their progress in implementing employee involvement.
- Subject
- Industrial management > Employee participation
- Labor productivity > Psychological aspects
- Job satisfaction
- Teams in the workplace
- Total quality management
- Industrial management > Employee participation > Japan
- Job Satisfaction
- Total Quality Management
- Industrial management > Employee participation
- Job satisfaction
- Labor productivity > Psychological aspects
- Teams in the workplace
- Total quality management
- Arbeidsorganisatie
- Medezeggenschap
- Participerend leiderschap
- workers participation
- total quality management
- labour relations
- quality circle
- problem solving
- group work
- workers representation
- codetermination
- collective bargaining
- employment security
- job satisfaction
- profit sharing
- workers stock ownership
- in plant training
- disclosure of information
- obstacle
- management attitude
- labour legislation
- government policy
- financial market
- case study
- motor vehicle industry
- ILO mentioned
- statistical table
- Management > Employee participation > Japan
- participation des travailleurs
- gestion de la qualité totale
- relations de travail
- cercle de qualité
- résolution de problème
- travail en groupe
- représentation des travailleurs
- cogestion
- négociation collective
- sécurité de l'emploi
- satisfaction au travail
- participation aux bénéfices
- actionnariat ouvrier
- formation dans l'entreprise
- divulgation de l'information
- attitude patronale
- législation du travail
- politique gouvernementale
- marché financier
- étude de cas
- industrie du véhicule à moteur
- OIT mentionné
- tableau statistique
- participación de los trabajadores
- administración general de la calidad
- relaciones laborales
- círculo de calidad
- resolución de problemas
- trabajo en grupo
- representación de los trabajadores
- cogestión
- negociación colectiva
- seguridad en el empleo
- satisfacción en el trabajo
- participación en los beneficios
- participación obrera por acciones
- formación en la empresa
- divulgación de la información
- obstáculo
- actitud de la dirección
- legislación del trabajo
- política gubernamental
- mercado financiero
- estudio de casos
- industria de vehículos a motor
- mención de la OIT
- cuadros estadísticos
- Japan
- Japan
- USA
- Japon
- Etats-Unis
- Japón
- Estados Unidos
- Genre/Form
- comment.
- reference.
- commentaire.
- référence bibliographique.
- comentario.
- referencia.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-211) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. NUMMI: A Case Study -- Ch. 3. Employee Support -- Ch. 4. Managerial, Union, and Business Partner Support -- Ch. 5. Profits and Employee Involvement -- Ch. 6. Market Failures and Employee Involvement -- Ch. 7. Employee Involvement in Japan -- Ch. 8. Public Policies -- Ch. 9. Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0815752326
- 9780815752325
- 0815752318
- 9780815752318
- LCCN
- 94024066
- ZBWT00718090
- OCLC
- ocm31604375
- 31604375
- SCSB-2050120
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library