The Impact of Manufacturing Employees on Technological Changes

Yonatan Reshef, Kay Stratton-Devine and Brian Bemmels
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Kay Stratton-Devine: University of Alberta, Edmonton
Brian Bemmels: University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 1994, vol. 15, issue 4, 505-530

Abstract: Understanding what makes some workers resist technological change while others accept and facilitate it, may be crucial to the survival of manufacturing firms. This study uses information from managers to analyze the determinants of employees' reactions to technological changes in the production operations of 255 Canadian manufacturing plants between 1985 and 1991. Employee impact on the decision to make technological changes and on implementation of these changes is positive when employees are involved in the change process, when their involvement is direct rather than through a union, and when employees exert direct pressure on management to engage them in the change process.

Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X94154002

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