1st Edition

The World of Work Industrial Society and Human Relations

By Chris Brewster Copyright 1987
    466 Pages
    by Routledge

    466 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book, first published in 1958, concerns American industry and commerce, and is devoted to what people do while they are working and reasons for their behaviour. This volume should prove valuable as an attempt to make systematic sense out of work in our industrial world. The balance of fact and theory is useful to those interested in understanding this complex world of working behaviour, and will be of interest to students of human resource management.

    Part One: Work in Modern Society;  1. World of Work;  Part Two: Organization of Work;  2. Human Relations  3. Structures of Organizations  4. Behaviour Systems  5. Jobs, Positions, Offices  6. Group Life of Organizations  7. Institutional Bases of Decisions;  Part Three: Working Population;  8. Labor Force  9. Backgrounds of Workers;  Part Four: Getting Work Done;  10. Technology and Production  11. Automation and Human Relations  12. Motivation and Morale  13. Incentives  14. The Individual Worker  15. Individual Mobility  16. Work Groups and Work  17. Discontents and Grievances  18. Communication and Work;  Part Five: Management of Work Organizations;  19. Work Rules and Their Enforcement  20. Management of Bureaucracy  21. Management as Leadership;  Bibliography;  Index

    Biography

    Robert Dubin