The impact of lean production and related new systems of work organization on worker health.

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Landsbergis ◽  
Janet Cahill ◽  
Peter Schnall
Keyword(s):  
Lean Production ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Worker Health ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Decentralized Bargaining in a Globalizing Industry

2006 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell D. Lansbury ◽  
Chris F. Wright ◽  
Marian Baird
Keyword(s):  
Lean Production ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Skill Formation ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Automotive Assembly ◽  
Enterprise Governance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Decentralized Bargaining

This paper examines the impact of enterprise bargaining on employment relations practices in the Australia automotive assembly sector in the context of the globalization of the industry. While there has been convergence towards lean production principles among the four auto assemblers, arising from global trends, there has also been divergence resulting from enterprise bargaining, among other variables. Strong similarities are apparent between the companies in areas such as work organization, skill formation and enterprise governance, whereas there are differences in remuneration and staffing practices. However, it remains to be seen whether decentralized bargaining will continue to yield greater differentiation in employment relations among the automotive manufacturers in an increasingly globalized industry.

scholarly journals The viability of the Scandinavian work-life model and the impact of lean production: The case of Scania

2020 ◽  
pp. 0143831X2093913
Author(s):  
Margareta Oudhuis ◽  
Stefan Tengblad
Keyword(s):  
Production System ◽  
Lean Production ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Organization Design ◽  
Work Life ◽  
New Model ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Stakeholder Model ◽  
The Impact

From the 1970s through the 1990s, Scandinavian work-life, especially in Sweden, was an international role model for work organization and industrial relations. Practices such as job enrichment, teamwork in semi-autonomous groups, multi-skilling, and long work cycles were commonplace. This article investigates if and how such practices, the Socio-Technical Systems model (STS), are still followed in Sweden after the arrival of lean production. The study was conducted at Scania, a Swedish heavy truck and bus manufacturer well-known for its innovative work organization and its previous use of a socio-technical work design. The study finds that as this production and management model has been substantially marginalized, a new model has emerged. The new model, inspired by the Toyota Production System and lean, is characterized by a line organization design, standardized work processes, daily control, all shorter cycle-times, permanent team leader positions, position ownership, and continuous improvement with rotation possibilities. This new model, Scania Production System (SPS), has enjoyed considerable success. Yet challenges remain with respect to employee commitment to work and their boredom with highly-paced, repetitive work, leading to an advocacy for more of a hybrid model between the SPS and the STS models. Although the study is performed in only one company it is an exemplar company in Sweden which has been highly influential also beyond the transportation industry. The article also expands the scientific knowledge of production systems by the help of a novel stakeholder model. The article’s contribution is its demonstration of current work organization practices and to what extent these represent continuity or new trajectories. Lean production has had a vigouous reception in Scania but there are problematic features that are distinct from a stakeholder model perspective.

scholarly journals Emberierőforrás-menedzsment gyakorlatokkal kapcsolatos kutatások a lean termelés irodalmában (Researches on human resource management practices of lean production literature)

2013 ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Dávid Losonci
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Lean Production ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Operational Performance ◽  
Human Resource Management Practices ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Organizational Logic

A lean termelési rendszer szociotechnikai megközelítése szerint a lean technikai elemei (technikai alrendszer) a kimagasló teljesítményt nyújtó munkaerő-szervezési rendszer (HPWS) gyakorlataival (szocio alrendszer) kapcsolódnak össze. A tanulmány ezt a megközelítést MacDuffie (1995) szervezetilogika-koncepciója alapján mutatja be. A lean termelési rendszer munkaerő-szervezési rendszerével kapcsolatosan négy témakört tekint át: (1) a lean termelési rendszer munkaerő-szervezési rendszerekre gyakorolt hatását, (2) a HPWSgyakorlatok használatát és (3) teljesítményhatását, végül a (4) munkásokra gyakorolt hatásokat. A feldolgozott koncepcionális és empirikus munkákban valamennyi pontban számos ellentmondás fedezhető fel. _____ According to the socio-technical view of lean production lean system is built on both technical and human resource practices (subsystems). The concept of organizational logic developed by MacDuffie (1995) describes how lean techniques and high performance working systems practices mutually suppose each other in lean environment. This study reviews four fields of human issues in relation to lean production: (1) the impact of lean system on work organization; (2) the use HPWS practices and (3) their impact on operational performance indicators in lean producers; (4) the impact of lean production on workers. The review of empirical and conceptual studies points out that there are many contradictions regarding the above points.

Where is work organization in total worker health?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Schnall ◽  
Marnie Dobson ◽  
Paul Landsbergis
Keyword(s):  
Work Organization ◽  
Worker Health ◽  
Total Worker Health

scholarly journals The Impact of Worker Health on Long Term Care: Implications for Nursing Managers

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Letvak ◽  
Christopher J. Ruhm
Keyword(s):  
Long Term Care ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Nursing Managers ◽  
Worker Health ◽  
The Impact

Migrant Worker Health

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Migrant Worker ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
High Status ◽  
New Host ◽  
Worker Health

More than 150 million international migrant workers and an unknown number of internal migrant workers toil across the globe. More than workplace exposures affect migrant worker health; their health is also affected by exposures in the sociocultural milieu from which they came and in which they currently live. Although some of these migrant workers include professionals in high-status occupations such as doctors, nurses, engineers, and computer scientists, most are low skill workers employed in the most dangerous jobs in the most hazardous industries. The health of these migrant workers has been a long-term concern in public health, and this concern has increased with the rise of greater globalization, the recent growth of displaced and refugee populations that will need to enter the workforce in their new host countries, and the anticipated effects of climate change. The domain of migrant worker health is expansive, and is necessarily limited in this bibliography. This bibliography focuses on workers and not the family members who may accompany them, although other family members also may be workers. It focuses on low-skill migrant workers, rather than on professionals who migrate for work. Low-skill migrant workers are the individuals for whom health and public health are concerns. Additionally, research on the health of migrant professional workers is scant. At the same time, this bibliography attempts to place migrant worker health in a holistic context; because migrant worker health is affected by more than workplace exposures, the bibliography addresses exposures in their current sociocultural milieu. This bibliography has three major sections. The first section summarizes general resources that provide information on migrant workers, including International Agencies, Nongovernmental Organizations, Data Sources, Reference Works, and Journals. The second section addresses the characteristics of migrant workers that affect their health, including their Personal Characteristics, the Circumstances of Migration, Forced Migration, Industries which employ migrant workers, and 3-D Jobs: Dangerous, Dirty, and Demanding. The final section considers the health status of migrant workers, with discussions of Conceptual Frameworks for understanding migrant worker health, Work Organization Exposures, Environmental Exposures, Sociocultural Exposures, Health Conditions, Approaches to Improve Migrant Worker Health, and Policy/Regulations.

scholarly journals The impact of COVID-19 on education in Poland: Challenges related to distance learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-411
Author(s):  
Adam Hibszer ◽  
Mariola Tracz
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

The spread of COVID-19 all over the world triggered major changes in the organization of the education in many countries. Governments have adopted various solutions to reduce the disruption caused to education. This article, which is based on survey research (N=246) conducted among teachers in various types of schools in Poland, provides an analysis of the solutions in the field of distance learning and the organization of learning process during lockdown. The results show that teachers encountered a number of difficulties in distance learning. They concerned, among others: lack of access among certain students to computers, insufficient competences of teachers to teach remotely, work organization, and the fact that students were bored with this learning form. The advantages included, among others: increasing digital competences and developing new forms of assessing students’ knowledge.

Lean Production and Worker Health: A Discussion

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Landsbergis ◽  
Paul S. Adler ◽  
Steve Babson ◽  
Jeffrey Johnson ◽  
Michelle Kaminski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lean Production ◽  
Worker Health

Alternatives to Lean Production: Work Organization in the Swedish Auto Industry.

1994 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
John Paul MacDuffie ◽  
Christian Berggren
Keyword(s):  
Lean Production ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Auto Industry
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