... identifying three types of training organisations: skill up‐dating, learning, and capability enhancing. Originality/value The paper demonstrates that product specificities and the technology associated with it matter less than the system of work organisation and the mode of management in determining...

...Guido Citoni; Benoît Mahy; François Rycx; Guido Citoni; Benoît Mahy; François Rycx Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce this special issue on work organization, performance and health. Design/methodology/approach The authors provide a general review of the literature and describe...

... employment adjustment, while ITCs adjustment does not depend on whether firms employ FTCs. ITCs short‐term employment elasticity with respect to wages suggests that workers protection against redundancies is strengthened when firms manage work organisation with both types of contracts. In contrast to ITCs...

... is an inverse function of the deviation between the actual and potential employment level. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Work study Time study Work organization Germany United States of America The study analyses the performances of different reaction functions to be used...

... in \overline H. Thus, as depicted in Figure 5 , the APM curve shifts upwards and, if f” ( ⋅ ) < 0, the ASC curve shifts downwards. As a result, equilibrium employment L₀ rises unambiguously. Work organization...

... 1997 Labelling Measurement Research Work organization Handbook of organizational measurement James L. Price Department of Sociology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA 1. Introduction Introduction 305 Statement of purpose The handbook has four objectives. The first is to promote...