Managing To Change?

British Workplaces and the Future of Work

M. White, S. Hill, Kenneth A. Loparo, Kenneth A. Loparo, Deborah Smeaton, Colin Mills

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN:
  9781403938053
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230506152
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Business

This book presents new and authoritative evidence about change at the workplace, using it to cast light on recent debates about the future of work. The basic questions it poses are whether, and how, British workplaces are responding to the challenge of change, and what are the implications of change both for managers and employees. Using up-to-date information from 2000 workplaces, it provides a realistic basis for envisaging the changes through the first decade of the 21st century. It is accessible to a wide audience of policy makers, managers, professionals, students and academics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Tables and Charts
• Acknowledgements
• Glossary of Abbreviations
• 1 Profiling Change at Work
• 2 Flexible Labour at its Limit?
• 3 Intelligent Flexibility
• 4 Resuscitating Careers
• 5 Shrinking the Workspace
• 6 Extending Management Control
• 7 Lowering the Sexual Barriers
• 8 Developing Diversity
• 9 Which Strategies?
• 10 Management versus Regulation?
• 11 Interpreting the Trends
• Appendix 1 The Change in Employer Practices Survey (CEPS-02)
• Appendix 2 Methods of Analysis
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index