Tackling Time

Jan Ch. Karlsson

Chapter 41 in Organizational Misbehaviour in the Workplace, 2012, pp 110-111 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Work at this industrialized, conveyor-belt bakery is very dull and humdrum, heavy and hot. There are wall clocks everywhere, but ‘it seems like there’s some bugger standing on the hands of the clock and stopping them going round’, one of the workers often puts it. Some of the jobs are fairly comfortable — they could be learned by anyone in a few seconds and they do not require any attentiveness on the part of the worker — but nobody wants them; they are too boring. Instead, they all want jobs that demand something of them, in spite of being heavier and hotter. There are even degrees of monotony.

Keywords: Production Line; Resource Management; Human Resource; Human Resource Management; Counting Time (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230354630_41

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