The Meaning of Work: Papers on Work Organization and the Design of Jobs - Softcover

Klein, Lisl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855753480 ISBN 13: 9781855753488

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

Lisl Klein has spent forty years working on the twin themes of the practice of social science in organizations and the importance of work and work organization. Papers on the first of these were published as Working Across the Gap. This volume brings together papers covering the second theme, the meaning and organization of work.

About this title

About the Author:

Lisl Klein worked in industry, on the shop floor, and in personnel management before moving into organization research. From 1965 to 1970 she was Social Sciences Adviser for Esso Petroleum Company Ltd. and, from 1971 to 1989, senior social scientist with the Tavistock Institute. She founded the Bayswater Institute in 1990. She was its Director until 2002 and is now Research Director and Visiting Professor at Kingston University. She has written or co-authored five books and some forty papers.

Review:

'To say that Lisl Klein has been active and influential as a consultant in industry for nearly fifty years is an understatement. She has, in her own words in "Working Across the Gap", had a 'life-long love affair with industry' and other kinds of organizations and she has had a "life-long fascination, not to say obsession, with the question of work satisfaction". This collection spans all her working years and gives a comprehensive picture of a remarkable career as a researcher and consultant as well as insights and criticisms of great value.'- Stefan Jern, Department of Psychology, Lund University'A very fine narrative that keeps the reader informed, educated and entertained. [This book offers] a prodigious range of insights of the interaction of theory and practice. The author has collected together numerous of her earlier publications and revisited them; reinterpreted, d and to a degree, integrated them. This is made up of case studies, vignettes, autobiographical sections, theorizing and reflections that somehow combine into a very cohesive and compelling whole.'The same virtues of uncompromising objectivity, critical imagination, sharp intelligence and engrossing storytelling that characterized Klein's earlier work [are found] in her latest. As a chronicle of changing relations between industry and academia, this book is hard to beat.'- Yiannis Gabriel, The School of Management, Royal Holloway University of London'Social science would be healthier today if there were more Lisl Kleins'- William Brown, Work, Employment & Society

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1855753480
• ISBN 13: 9781855753488
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336