1st Edition
Productivity and Social Organization The Ahmedabad experiment: technical innovation, work organization and management
Edited By A. K. Rice
Copyright 1970
320 Pages
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Routledge
316 Pages
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Routledge
320 Pages
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Routledge
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Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in... Read more
I: The Project and its Background; 1: Introduction; 2: Ahmedabad and its Textile Industry; 3: The Calico Mills; II: Concepts and Assumptions; 4: Task and Work-Group Organization; 5: Operating and Managing Systems of Industrial Organization; III: The Experimental Reorganization of Automatic Weaving THE SOCIAL REORGANIZATION OF A TECHNOLOGICALLY DISTURBED PRODUCTION SYSTEM; 6: Before Change; 7: Reorganization; 8: The First Results; 9: Follow-Up; 10: Later Results; 11: Interpretation and Conclusions; IV: The Experimental Reorganization of Non-Automatic Weaving; 12: A Non-Automatic Loom Shed; 13: Setting Up the Experimental Shed; 14: The Outcome of Reorganization; 15: Interpretation and Conclusions; V: The Experimental Reorganization of Management; 16: The Background to Management Reorganization; 17: Management in 1953; 18: Analysis of Textile Operations; 19: Establishing the New System; 20: Manning The New Structure; VI: Social and Technical Change; 21: Tasks and their Organization; 22: Systems and their Organization; 23: The Machine Culture; 24: The Management of Change
Biography
A. K. Rice
