Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents: Connections: A Framework for work change -- The Political context of employment -- Work: Technology and the organization of work -- New manufacturing initiatives and shopfloor job design -- Technological changes in office jobs -- Workers: Human resources and their skills -- Advancing personnel selection and placement methods -- Changing individual organization attachment -- Careers as lifelong learning -- Working: When people get out of the job -- Leadership in the twenty-first century -- Changing conceptions and practices in performance appraisal -- Reflections: Post-industrial lives: New demands, new prescriptions -- Rethinking the psychology of work.