Creating Sustainable Work Systems: Developing Social Sustainability

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ISBN: 9780415772716 | 0415772710
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/10/2008

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This new edition tackles all the latest developments and integrates practical perspectives with rigorous research to shed light on a vital aspect of working life. Focusing on developing the human and social resources within an organization, this book provides the basis for designing and implementing sustainable work systems.

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List of figures	p. xi
List of tables	p. xii
Notes on contributors	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Foreword: I	p. xx
Foreword: II	p. xxiii
What the world needs now is sustainable work systems	p. 1
Focusing value frameworks	p. 23
Organizational visions of sustainability	p. 25
The Interface journey to sustainability: Identity dynamics within cultural incrementalism	p. 38
Focusing work and work systems	p. 51
Sustainability in knowledge-based companies	p. 53
Sustainability and the ageing workforce: Considerations with regard to the German car manufacturing industry	p. 70
Utilizing technology to supports sustainability	p. 84
Focusing change in sustainable organizations	p. 101
Creating sustainable, desired change in teams through application of intentional change and complexity theories	p. 103
Sustainable heritage in a rapidly changing environment	p. 117
Learning mechanisms in sustainable work systems design	p. 131
Financial management to support sustainability	p. 147
Focusing systems	p. 165
A development coalition for sustainability in healthcare	p. 167
Three powers of feedback for sustainable multi-organizational learning	p. 186
Labelling and sustainability: The case of specialty coffee	p. 202
An initial exploration of sustainable work systems in China: An issue of imbalance between economic and social reform	p. 217
Future of sustainable work systems	p. 231
Sustained by work: Individual and social sustainability in work organizations	p. 233
Toward a sustainable work systems design and change methodology	p. 247
Sustainable work systems: Past, present and future of social sustainability	p. 268
Index	p. 290
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