Einleitung -- Prognostizierte Veränderungen der gestaltbaren Arbeitssystemdimensionen -- Systeme zur Assistenz und Effizienzsteigerung in manuellen Produktionsprozessen der Industrie auf Basis von Projektion und Tiefendatenerkennung -- Betriebliche Auswirkungen industrieller Servicerobotik am...

In this paper, we investigate the association between female leadership, work organization practices and perceived gender discrimination within firms. Using data for 30 European countries for the period 1995-2010, we find that having a female "boss" is associated with lower overall gender...

"This book explores how the 21st Century is the era of high-tech, digitized, borderless and networked economies and organizations. It explores how organizations are realigning, reshaping and reinventing themselves. It also provides understanding on the characteristics of networked enterprises,...

"Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce--young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work--Walmartism--in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a...

Hierarchies of life and death -- Forms of labor -- Slavery's scientific management -- Human capital -- Managing freedom -- Conclusion: Histories of business and slavery -- Epilogue: Forward to scientific management

Eine gute Organisation ist in öffentlichen Verwaltungen und Unternehmen ein strategischer Erfolgsfaktor und wird an Bedeutung zunehmen. Deshalb wird dieses Thema zunehmend in den öffentlichen Fokus geraten. Das vorliegende Buch richtet sich nicht nur an Auszubildende und Studierende, sondern...

Mobile information and communication technologies (ICT) have started to diffuse rapidly in the business sector. This study tests for the complementarity between the use of mobile ICT and organizational practices providing workplace flexibility. We hypothesize that mobile ICT can create value if...

Section one. Take stock: Make time for work that matters : evaluate and then drop, delegate, or redesign / by Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen -- Are you too stressed to be productive? Or not stressed enough?: a research-based assessment / by Francesca Gino -- What's your personal productivity...