- Title
- A holistic approach to the productivity paradox
- Creator
- Wigblad, Rune; Lewer, John; Hansson, Magnus
- Relation
- Human Systems Management Vol. 26, Issue 2, p. 85-97
- Relation
- http://iospress.metapress.com/content/n2865v38j07gh434
- Publisher
- IOS Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2007
- Description
- Both the public and private sectors have since the 1980s relentlessly cut the size of their workforces. The downsizing has regularly been reported to lead to closure of a whole or a part of a corporation or organization. Some studies which have analyzed the closures have reported that remarkable, counterintuitive improvements in labor productivity occurred during the time-period between the closure announcement and the final working day. Testing an elaborated cybernetic model on a Swedish case study, and on an exploratory basis, this paper proposes a holistic approach to generate a better understanding of this phenomenon. The main holistic pattern is a new order where management control is replaced by more “Self-management” on the plant level, and very strong psychological reactions based on feelings of unfairness.
- Subject
- closedown; cybernetics; downsizing; industrial relations; productivity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/939520
- Identifier
- uon:12830
- Identifier
- ISSN:0167-2533
- Language
- eng
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