The Manufacturing Plant

Michael White
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Michael White: Ashridge Management College

Chapter 8 in The Hidden Meaning of Pay Conflict, 1981, pp 98-114 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The third case-survey concerns production workers engaged in semi-skilled manual factory work, the workers being represented by a single union. It also concerns an emerging situation of major conflict, in which (within months of the survey’s completion) a prolonged strike took place. It is set within an organisation which was at the very extreme in applying rational economic ideas to its operations. All these features make the situation relatively easy to describe and to understand. Much of the research into job satisfaction, payment systems and industrial relations has been conducted in industrial organisations like this one. The main subject of the investigation also has a familiar look to it: it is the incentive payment scheme and the workers’ views of this scheme.

Keywords: Criterion Variable; Industrial Engineer; Incentive Scheme; Incentive System; Manufacture Plant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04734-5_8

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