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This milestone Handbook brings together an impressive collection of international contributions on micro research in Organizational Behavior. Focusing on core micro Organizational Behavior issues, chapters cover key themes such as individual and group behaviour. The Sage Handbook of Organizational Behavior Volumes I provides students and scholars with an insightful and wide reaching survey of the current state of the field and is an indespensible road map to the subject area. The Sage Handbook of Organizational Behavior Volume II will publish in November 2008. Edited by Stewart R Clegg and Cary L Cooper this Handbook draws together contributions from leading macro Organizational Behavior scholars.
Work Design: Still Going Strong
Work Design: Still Going Strong
The basic tenet of traditional industrial engineering is that a factory worker can be manipulated, through time and motion study procedures and other techniques, into enriching his company at the expense of himself. The truth is that a man on the job can outfox the company almost every time. Nobody is going to work faster or better if it means cutting his own throat …. People and their brains are the most precious resource we have in our shop … Our most valuable partners in cutting waste are the people on the production floor, who know their jobs better than anyone.
The above quotation comes from Clair Vough's (Vough and Asbell, 1975: 67) introduction to a book ...
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