Example sentences of "form of work [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This includes the form of work structure into which the computer aspects of the system are embedded . |
| 2 | Trist et al. 's explanation for this form of work organisation focuses on aspects of the task of coal-mining . |
| 3 | The form of work organisation adopted by management in the Durham coalfield , at first , was to formally separate the three major production processes of preparation , coal-getting , and advancing ( the props , conveyors , etc. ) and to set up distinct groups , each working a whole shift , to perform each process . |
| 4 | In response to these difficulties a different form of work organisation , deriving from the single-place tradition , was developed . |
| 5 | This form of work organisation , an attempt to reintroduce responsibility , autonomy , and the client ‘ contractor element to the management ’ worker relationship , had the following four aspects : |
| 6 | These are : that Braverman ignores worker resistance ; that management may be ignorant of the most effective ways of meeting worker recalcitrance ; that there are more ways of killing a cat than skinning it ( in other words , that there are mechanisms other than fragmentation and de-skilling which management can use to control recalcitrant labour ) ; that technological and market opportunities vary across firms and that these influence the outcome of the struggle between capital and labour over the form of work organisation which is adopted ; and that the tight control of labour and the need to maximise output from individual workers may not be management 's most dominant concern in every case . |
| 7 | In small firms doing sub-contract work for the large car assembly plants , where the level of unionisation was weak , and management hired and fired labour in line with demand as it rose and fell , the form of work organisation approximated more closely to that which Braverman describes . |
| 8 | Therefore there is considerable room for choice in the form of work organisation to be adopted , and the one that suits management 's often unexamined assumptions about the best way does not have to be chosen . |
| 9 | The performance of this form of work organisation is interesting and impressive . |
| 10 | This will go some way towards the goal of eliminating the full-time VDU operator , which has been seen as an undesirable form of work organisation . |
| 11 | Their third conclusion is that ‘ when new technology is introduced an inappropriate form of work organization — that associated with the technical trial of the machinery — tends to be carried over to subsequent operational units ’ ( Trist et al. 1963 , 293 ) . |
| 12 | It no longer aroused feelings of exasperation , as it had done when he failed to link what had amounted to a form of work paralysis with the hopelessness which Dave must have felt about himself both at home and at school . |
| 13 | Pensions as a form of work reward suffer from an absurd time-lag ; no one at 25 years of age thinks in 40-year time horizons . |