The changing nature of work / Ann Howard, editor ; foreword by Sheldon Zedeck. - 1st ed. - San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1995. - xxviii, 590 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - The Jossey-Bass management series The Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series .

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.

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Work--Forecasting.
Work--Psychological aspects.
Industrial sociology.
Industrial relations.

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