Work Organisation and Job Satisfaction
Abstract
Until recently work systems have been determined almost entirely by the production technology and the implementation of technologies according to the principles of scientific management. As we are all now well aware, this has resulted in a great many jobs in industry requiring very limited skills and providing practically no scope for individuals to use their discretion. In many ways of course this trend has been successful and has resulted in the mass production of consumer goods and services at a relatively low price. It has thus been a major determinant of our improved standards of living over the last fifty years or so. However, there are now indications that we are suffering from diminishing economic returns from the traditional approaches to production management, quite apart from the social and human desirability of this approach to organising work.
Citation
Jessup, G. (1979), "Work Organisation and Job Satisfaction", Management Research News, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 12-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb027733
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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