article. The most obvious phenomenon of Post-Fordism is the flexibility. It can now be easily witnessed that flexible practices are kept being introduced into different areas including labor process‚ technology‚ contract. So how flexible the manufacturing process is has been a main index to recognize ‘post-Fordism’ and ‘Fodism’ Piore (1986) has a strong mind that ‘Fordism’ and ‘Taylorism’ have been replaced by the ‘post-Fordism’ and flexibility has spreaded across most capitalist countries. The customers
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POMS PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Vol. 14‚ No. 2‚ Summer 2005‚ pp. 159 –174 issn 1059-1478 ͉ 05 ͉ 1402 ͉ 159$1.25 © 2005 Production and Operations Management Society Investment in Facility Changeover Flexibility for Early Entry into High-Tech Markets Cheryl Gaimon and Alysse Morton College of Management‚ Georgia Institute of Technology‚ 800 West Peachtree Street NW‚ Atlanta‚ Georgia 30332-0520‚ USA Gore School of Business‚ Westminster College‚ 1830 South 1300 East‚ Salt Lake
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How has the labour market ’deregulation’ contributed to Australia’s productivity growth? Labour Market Deregulation Definition Labour market regulation refers to the imposition of rules‚ whether informal or formal‚ impacting and controlling and restricting the behaviour in which labour can both operate and be dealt with. Sources of regulation and control come from not only the Government‚ Industrial Commissions other government institutions but lobbyist groups such as workers unions and commerce
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Introduction Capitalism is a political‚ social and economic system subject to periodic instability‚ change and the like which influences the business world in many ways. The Post-Fordism era in broaden sense is generic description of Capitalism period which mainly is characterised by flexible production of non-standardized‚ better-quality goods embracing adaptability of production processes in harmony with the unpredictable nature of markets to meet customers’ satisfaction. The changes made in notion
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competitive. As a result enterprises have been forced to adopt greater flexibility – functional and numerical - in terms of labour utilization. In terms of functional flexibility some examples are broadening of job designs‚ enlarging the scope of individual skills amongst others. In terms of numerical flexibility‚ some examples are changing working hours‚ hiring of causal‚ part time‚ temporary and contract workers. These job flexibilities have both the advantages and disadvantages‚ but people are so
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This essay will explore three case studies: Outsourcing in electricity generation‚ The non-unionised company and Cost minimisation and the flexible workforce. With reference to the first case study‚ Outsourcing in electricity generation‚ this essay will identify where management has used specific human relations techniques to develop their outsourcing strategy‚ show evidence that management adopted a HRM approach to downsizing and outsourcing‚ explore whether the approach was hard or soft HRM
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A series of professional methods have been used in different kinds of fields in research. This essay intends to make a primary exploration about five terms of research skill‚ which are questionnaire‚ interview‚ multidisciplinary research‚ case study and quantitative research‚ at the same time‚ illustrating how the five terms being used in research. Firstly‚ this essay will make a general overview of the meaning of these five nouns in research. Secondly‚ analyze their advantages and disadvantages
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decline of Fordism and bureaucracy in the developed economies • Changes in their labour markets • Flexibility as the solution School of Management Flexibility (Thompson and • Functional flexibility McHugh 2009) –Workers able to undertake a wider range of tasks including some involving the exercise of discretion and problem solving on workplace issues • Numerical flexibility –Variations in the hours worked or headcount to accommodate changes in demand. Accomplished through
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Chapter 3 Methodology Research Design The descriptive method of research was used for this study. To define the descriptive type of research‚ Creswell (1994) stated that the descriptive method of research is to gather information about the present existing condition. The emphasis is on describing rather than on judging or interpreting. The aim of descriptive research is to verify formulated hypotheses that refer to the present situation in order to elucidate it. The descriptive approach is
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Hon Hai/Foxconn is the world’s important contract producer‚ assembles customer electronics products for famous brand-names. It’s also a provider of parts and components and has planned associations with several other such providers. Despite its size (above of a million staffs‚ hierarchical 32 in the Fortune Global 500) and client base . For example ( HP‚ Nokia‚ Sony and Apple) remarkably little information is widely available on the corporation. The company does not follow the limelight‚ the attribute
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