Quality of Working Life Movement Part I: History

Abstract

Occasionally, a new idea will burst upon the world of work with such a force that it commands the attention of researchers and practitioners alike. It generates excitement, perhaps even a certain vogue, as active minds attempt to exploit it. Of course, the courtship eventually ends and a general consensus emerges as to just how seminal the idea was to begin with. Most likely it will come to occupy a niche in the prevailing scheme of industrial and organisational thought. Some—very few—pass into that select company of honoured concepts which have established new schemes for research and practice.

Citation

Ronchi, D. (1981), "Quality of Working Life Movement Part I: History", Employee Relations, Vol. 3 No. 1, pp. 2-6. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb054960