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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Levine, David I., 1960- Reinventing the workplace. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, c1995 (OCoLC)682948089 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David I Levine |
| ISBN: | 0815752326 9780815752325 0815752318 9780815752318 |
| OCLC Number: | 31604375 |
| Description: | xii, 222 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | David I. Levine. |
Abstract:
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.
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- Industrial management -- Employee participation.
- Labor productivity -- Psychological aspects.
- Job satisfaction.
- Teams in the workplace.
- Total quality management.
- Industrial management -- Employee participation -- Japan.
- Arbeidsorganisatie.
- Medezeggenschap.
- Participerend leiderschap.
- Gestion d'entreprise -- Participation du personnel.
- Productivité -- Aspect psychologique.
- Satisfaction au travail.
- Équipes de travail.
- Qualité totale.
- Gestion d'entreprise -- Participation du personnel -- Japon.
- Arbeitsbeziehungen / Mitbestimmung / Arbeitsorganisation / Arbeitnehmerbeteiligung / USA / Japan.
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