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Change At Work by Peter Cappelli; Laurie Bassi; Harry Katz; David Knoke; Paul Osterman; Michael Useem is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Change At Work about?

A far-reaching transformation is taking place in the US in the relationship between employers and employees. The lessons learned from Japan and from "best practice" companies like IBM about how job security, training, and internal development can improve employee commitment and performance have given way to a new set of lessons about how companies can redue fixed costs, increase flexibility, and improve performance by eliminating the elaborate employment systems that prepared employees for long careers in the company. Where the old arrangement protected employees from outside market forces, the new ones drag the market right back in through downsizing, contingent workforces, hiring on the outside for new skills, and compensation contingent on overall organizational performance. New work systems that reengineer processes and empower employees "flatten" the organizational chart, cutting management jobs in particular and reducing opportunities for career development. The new arrangements shift many of the risks of business from the firm to the employees and make employees, rather than employers, responsible for developing their own skills and careers. They also increase the demands pl

Who reads Change At Work?

Author

Peter Cappelli; Laurie Bassi; Harry Katz; David Knoke; Paul Osterman; Michael Useem

Publisher

Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9786610452422

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, Management