Creating Sustainable Work Systems: Developing Social Sustainability

by Docherty; Peter

• ISBN13: 9780415772723
• ISBN10: 0415772729
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-12-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Since the first edition of this book was published, the subject of sustainability has risen to the forefront of thinking in almost every subject within business and management. Tackling the latest developments and integrating practical perspectives with rigorous research, this new edition sheds light on a vital aspect of working life. Current trends reveal that increasing intensity at work has major consequences at individual, organizational and societal levels. Sustainability in work systems thus requires a multi-stakeholder approach, emphasising a value-based choice to promote the concurrent development of various resources in the work system. This sustainability grows from intertwined individual and collective learning processes taking place within and between organizations in collaboration. In exploring the development of sustainable work systems, this book analyzes these problems, and provides the basis for designing and implementing 'sustainable work systems' based on the idea of regeneration and the development of human and social resources. The authors, who are leading researchers and practitioners from around the world, consider the existing possibilities and emerging solutions and explore alternatives to intensive work systems.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. xi
List of tables	p. xii
Notes on contributors	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Foreword: I	p. xx
Foreword: II	p. xxiii
What the world needs now is sustainable work systems	p. 1
Focusing value frameworks	p. 23
Organizational visions of sustainability	p. 25
The Interface journey to sustainability: Identity dynamics within cultural incrementalism	p. 38
Focusing work and work systems	p. 51
Sustainability in knowledge-based companies	p. 53
Sustainability and the ageing workforce: Considerations with regard to the German car manufacturing industry	p. 70
Utilizing technology to supports sustainability	p. 84
Focusing change in sustainable organizations	p. 101
Creating sustainable, desired change in teams through application of intentional change and complexity theories	p. 103
Sustainable heritage in a rapidly changing environment	p. 117
Learning mechanisms in sustainable work systems design	p. 131
Financial management to support sustainability	p. 147
Focusing systems	p. 165
A development coalition for sustainability in healthcare	p. 167
Three powers of feedback for sustainable multi-organizational learning	p. 186
Labelling and sustainability: The case of specialty coffee	p. 202
An initial exploration of sustainable work systems in China: An issue of imbalance between economic and social reform	p. 217
Future of sustainable work systems	p. 231
Sustained by work: Individual and social sustainability in work organizations	p. 233
Toward a sustainable work systems design and change methodology	p. 247
Sustainable work systems: Past, present and future of social sustainability	p. 268
Index	p. 290
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