Improving the Quality of Working Life: A New Industrial Revolution Available to Purchase

The growth in microelectronics and its likely impact in a wide variety of industries in the near future offers us a great opportunity not only in becoming more productive and efficient but also in improving the quality of life at work. In many European countries where this micro‐processing revolution has already begun, we are witnessing the developing of new systems of work organisation, which are attempting to humanise the work place and to provide workers with greater control over their particular jobs and the decision‐making process surrounding them.