Work Study: Volume 44 Issue 1

Compressed workweeks in office‐type environments

Rudy Hung

Offices usually operate five‐days‐a‐week from Monday to Friday, withemployees following the standard five‐day workweek. Unlike schedulingemployees in seven‐days‐a‐week or…

Managing the transition to supervision

Brian T. Kumagai, Brian H. Kleiner

In most companies and organizations, employees are selected as newsupervisors based on their superior performance, experience, anddemonstrated technical skills in their everyday…

A model of job analysis on industrial occupations

Jon‐Chao Hong, Yi‐Shyuan Lin

With changes in world and national economies and the continuing trendover the last 20 years towards industrial automation, the nature of theworkforce required has changed. Take…

Flexible employment – evil or opportunity?

Anna Baines

Many of us grew up in the era of the employee working an eight‐hourday, forty‐hour week and forty‐eight‐week‐year. That is how the world ofwork was organized and real battles were…

Productivity growth: some imperatives

R.P. Mohanty

My experience over the last two decades, together with the results ofdiscussions with a large number of Indian executives and managers, leadsme to believe that there are three…

Time to compute

Andrew Clemmet

The computer has become ubiquitous. Almost every office has at leastone indeed, in many industries, almost every member of staff has one.This situation has come about in only 50…

Information resource management

Ken Gregson

Information technology is relatively new. Information is not.Information resources have always existed, but technology vastlyincreases our ability to access resources, both those…

Realizing organizational potential

Ken Gregson

We all know that some organizations are more productive than others.We do not necessarily know why. The way in which the organization isstructured is the basic determinant – it…