High Performance Work Systems

This book analyses the â€~high performance work systems’ that a number of American and European companies have evolved to meet this challenge. It particular, it describes in detail the experiences of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) at their UK manufacturing plant.

Foreword by Laurence V. C. Megson; Acknowledgments; Part One: Back to the Future; 1. Buried in the 1970s 2. Surfaced in the 1980s 3. Managing Change; Part Two: The Digital Experience; 4. Digital's Achievement Culture 5. Stuffing Modules 6. Competitive Organizational Design 7. Pain and Rewards 8. Transient Structures 9. The High Performance Experience; Part Three: The Wider Relevance; 10. The Consequences 11. Large Scale Organizational Change 12. The Management Lessons; Appendix; Bibliography; Index