Wise, Sarah; Duffield, Christine; Fry, Margaret; Roche, … - In: Journal of Health Organization and Management 31 (2017) 4, pp. 503-516
ideal types of Taylorism and functional flexibility is a simple, effective way the costs and benefits of workforce reform …/methodology/approach The paper uses the Weberian tool of “ideal types”. Key workforce reforms are held against Atkinson’s model of functional … flexibility which aims to increase responsiveness and adaptability through multiskilling, autonomy and teams; and Taylorism which …