Creating Sustainable Work Systems: Developing Social Sustainability - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415285763 ISBN 13: 9780415285766

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

Current trends reveal that increasing intensity at work has major consequences at individual, organizational and societal levels. New organizational approaches to work are needed so the balance between intensive and sustainable work can be achieved, yet there are no guiding models, theories or examples on how this can be done.

In exploring the development of sustainable work systems, this book analyzes these problems, and provides the basis for designing and implementing 'sustainable work systems' based on the idea of regeneration and the development of human and social resources. Shedding light on the emerging work systems, this book describes existing problems and paradoxes. The researchers, from various academic disciplines and institutions in the US and Europe, consider the existing possibilities and emerging solutions and explore alternatives to intensive work systems.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Docherty is currently a researcher in the Business School of a technical university. His work is cross-disciplinary, concerning the interations between business, technology, people and organizations.

Jan Forslin is Professor in Operations Management and Industrial Ergonomics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

A.B. (Rami) Shani is Professor of Organization Behaviour and Change, California State University, San Luis Obispo, and Visiting Research Professor at the FENIX Program, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415285763
• ISBN 13: 9780415285766
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Forslin Jan, Docherty Peter, Shani A.B. (Rami)