Manufacturing Advantage: Why High Performance Work Systems Pay Off

by Eileen Appelbaum, Arne L. Kalleberg, Thomas Bailey, et al.

Book Overview

Much of the hoopla surrounding quality circles, teams, and high-performance work systems has been based on anecdotes and very thin evidence. It has not been established that those employee involvement strategies amount to anything more than another series of management fads or ruses designed to get more out of workers without giving them anything in return. This revelatory book, written by some of the skeptics, lays some of the suspicion to rest.Based...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801486556
• ISBN13: 9780801486555
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher