Ann-Katrin Bäcklund
Senior Lecturer
Just-in-Time : Hur industriella rationaliseringsstrategier formar arbetsdelning och kompetens
Author
Summary, in English
The results indicate a development of job enlargement, often in combination with higher knowledge demands. The rate of job enlargement was greater for white-collar than for blue-collar workers, but the trend is the same for both groups. Most frequently integrated in the jobs were new communicative and administrative tasks. The job changes could be ascribes to a joint effect of organizational strategies and technology. Hence, the results confirm the fact that the division of labour is not solely determined by technological development. Technology has the potential to facilitate the control of work tasks in an organization, as well as the opposite. It is the strategies of production, with no-storage buffers, precise standards of quality and deliveries and market-adapted products, which make decentralized decisions, skill and involvement among employees valuable to the production process.
Department/s
- Department of Human Geography
Publishing year
1994
Language
Swedish
Publication/Series
Meddelande från Lunds universitets geografiska institutioner. Avhandlingar
Issue
118
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Department of Social and Economic Geography, Lund University
Topic
- Human Geography
Keywords
- Competence
- post-fordism
- just-in-time
- division of labour
- flexible production
- skills
Status
Published
Supervisor
- Olof Wärneryd
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0346-6787
Defence date
4 March 1994
Defence time
10:15
Defence place
Department of Social and Economic Geography
Opponent
- Torsten Björkman (Professor)