... management Organizational culture Resistance Labour process Management control The film Stepford Wives focused on the lives of women in a fictitious American suburb who happily subscribed to a division of labour premised on meeting their husbands’ needs: they engaged in acceptable...

... Organizational performance Management control Labour market This book examines the question can SHRM augment the strategic capability of the firm by strengthening the link between human resources and firm performance. The book can be divided into three main themes. First is a general discussion of various...

... that there have been moves towards the more quantifiable measurement of outcomes and tighter management control. Employee empowerment is conceived of as the major defining feature of QM in the two organizations. Both companies have also sought greater flexibility through delayering and through efforts to break...

... for the implementation of QM, and which suggests that organizations need to steer away from a “cut‐price”approach. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Institute of Management Management control Managers Quality management Questionnaires Surveys United Kingdom While in recent years there has been considerable...

... Limited 1992 Participation Industrial relations Management control Quality circles Textile industry Employee Relations 14,3 56 The Long and Winding Road: Tracking Employee Involvement at Brown's Woven Carpets Peter Ackers Loughborough University Business School, UK Mick Marchington, Adrian...

... relationship is questioned. © MCB UP Limited 1989 Psychology Quality circles Employee relations Management control Effectiveness Labour efficiency PRODUCTIVE EFFICIENCY AND THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP THE CASE OF QUALITY CIRCLES by Fiona Wilson University of St. Andrews, Fife This article...

... discipline. The concept of industrial discipline is examined alongside forms of management control. Management aims and objectives and the difficulties management encounters in this sphere are considered. Worker attitudes and sources of complaints are discussed in the context of the type of involvement...

... of improving the techniques, rather than penetrating the social processes of control. The authors contend that this preoccupation has resulted in a neglect of examining the conditions and consequences of control for production. © MCB UP Limited 1983 Industrial relations Management control Number...