Sentence examples for workers autonomy from inspiring English sources

Scientific management, moreover, demanded strict supervisory control over the workplace and hence posed a profound threat to customary patterns of workers' autonomy in the labour process.

The model considers the interaction of two components: psychological demands (pace and intensity of work) and control (workers' autonomy and job skill requirements).

Therefore, they were trained in challenging the workers to reflect on the feasibility of solutions and how to present themselves as a source of support for the worker: not by taking over responsibilities but by strengthening the workers' autonomy.

The largest changes in a positive direction were found with respect to part-time workers' autonomy, their ability to build up a network and the consequences of part-time work for continuity of care.

Of the seven companies we studied, just one had managers who consistently supplied the catalysts — worker autonomy, sufficient resources and learning from problems — that enabled progress.

The movement was concerned with promoting good taste and self-fulfillment through the creation and the appreciation of beautiful objects; its more radical wing also sought to advance worker autonomy.

As Ms. Hulbert points out, in 1946, the same year that Dr. Spock published his first edition of "Baby and Child Care," the political scientist Peter Drucker published "The Concept of the Corporation," which argued for more worker-management partnerships and more worker autonomy.

By contrast, the German dual system uses high-performance work systems that involve flexible working and on-the-job problem-solving, maintaining high degrees of worker autonomy in a learning model of work organization (recall Exhibit 1).

The way Uber has organized resources en route to a formidable market valuation does not resemble any existing public companies' structures, so the startup has served as a crash test dummy for new notions of worker autonomy, app-driven channels to market, and management of both public perception and existing law and custom.

In the UK, data from the British Skills and Employment survey series, from 1986 to the present, are used by Green et al. to show trends in skills utilisation, in key aspects of the organisation of work – such as forms of teamworking and the extent of worker autonomy, the growing extent of educational mismatch, and the changing valuation of skills.

In the Netherlands, Van Echtelt et al. (2006) examined the effect of job designs with a high degree of worker autonomy on what they term 'over-employment' and came to the conclusion that this type of job design is particularly time greedy and causes employees to work longer hours than they desire.