Employment Relations in France Evolution and Innovation /

• Main Author: Jenkins, Alan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Plenum Studies in Work and Industry
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Management.; Personnel management.; Labor economics.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Human Resource Management.; Labor Economics.

Thisbook is the fruit of a number of years of assimilating another culture and learning about the evolution of its institutions, altogether an incr- iblyrich andrewarding experience. Ihopetopassonto the reader some of that richness in the belief that, even in a “globalizing” context, learning about...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The French “Exception”
• The “Reform of Work ”and the Evolution of Participative Management in France
• A Decade of Technological Moderization: Negotiation and Organizational Change During the 1980s
• Toward Quality and Process Redesign: The ‘Lean’ Revolution in French Industry
• Decentralized Bargaining and the Spread of “Individualization” in Employee Appraisal and Remuneration
• Employment Crisis, Restructuring, and “Downsizing”
• The Impact of New Flexibilities on Working Time and Contracts
• Conclusion: Crisis, Conflict, and Reform in French Work and Society
• Conclusion: Crisis, Conflict, and Reform in French Work and Society.