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From the Publisher:"Just-in-time", "total quality management", "lean manufacturing", "call centres", "team work", "empowerment" - most people in business have heard these buzz words, often offered as a panacea to all profit ills. So why don't they always work? Can you combine them anyhow? If not, why not? The New Workplace Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the evidence available on how modern working practices and technology affect the people in organizations. Within a broad psychological framework, leading experts examine how people work, their experience of work, the impact on productivity and performance and the human resource implications. Guidance is offered on a range of different methods, tools and practices that can be used to guide the design and implementation of modern working practices to ensure that pitfalls are avoided and the best possible results are obtained from new initiatives. Indispensable for consultants, this Handbook will also be useful for students and scholars in the psychology of business, human resource professionals and anyone involved in the management of new working practices.

List of Illustrations. About the Editors. List of Contributors. Preface. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Essentials of the New Workplace (David Holman, Stephen Wood, Toby D. Wall and Ann Howard). Chapter 2: Workers Under Lean Manufacturing (Rick Delbridge). Chapter 3: The Human Side of Total Quality Management (Richard Cooney and Amrik Sohal). Chapter 4: System Integration in Advanced Manufacturing Technology (Waldemar Karwowski and Bradley Chase). Chapter 5: Supply-chain Partnering (Maire Kerrin and Belen Icasati-Johanson). Chapter 6: Team Work (John Cordery). Chapter 7: Call Centres (David Holman). Chapter 8: Knowledge Management (Harry Scarbrough). Chapter 9: Employee Involvement: Utilization, Impacts, and Future Prospects (George S. Benson and Edward E. Lawler III). Chapter 10: Managing Virtual Workers and Virtual Organisations (David Lamond, Kevin Daniels and Peter Standen). Chapter 11: Organisational Performance and Manufacturing Practices (Stephen Wood). Chapter 12 Organisational Performance in Services (Rosemary Batt and Virginia Doellgast). Author Index. Subject Index.

Human Resource ManagementVolume 41, Issue 3 p. 399-402 Book Review Marilyn K. Gowing, John D. Kraft, and James Campbell Quick. (Eds.). The New Organizational Reality: Downsizing, Restructuring, and Revitalization. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1998, 278 pages, $34.95. Ann Howard, Ann Howard Assessment Technology Integrity for Development Dimensions International (DDI)Search for more papers by this author Ann Howard, Ann Howard Assessment Technology Integrity for Development Dimensions International (DDI)Search for more papers by this author First published: 11 September 2002 https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.10049Citations: 4AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat REFERENCE Miller, J.P. (2000, February 28). Worker shortage remains, study says. The Wall Street Journal, pp. A5–A6. Citing Literature Volume41, Issue3Special Issue: Human Resources Management in the Public SectorAutumn (Fall) 2002Pages 399-402 ReferencesRelatedInformation

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