Creating Sustainable Work Systems: Developing Social Sustainability

✍ Scribed by Peter Docherty, Mari Kira, A.B. (Rami) Shani

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 323
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Since the first edition of this book was published, the subject of sustainability has risen to the forefront of thinking in almost every subject within business and management. Tackling the latest developments and integrating practical perspectives with rigorous research, this new edition sheds light on a vital aspect of working life.

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Current trends reveal that increasing intensity at work has major consequences at individual, organizational and societal levels. Sustainability in work systems thus requires a multi-stakeholder approach, emphasising a value-based choice to promote the concurrent development of various resources in the work system. This sustainability grows from intertwined individual and collective learning processes taking place within and between organizations in collaboration.

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In exploring the development of sustainable work systems, this book analyzes these problems, and provides the basis for designing and implementing 'sustainable work systems' based on the idea of regeneration and the development of human and social resources. The authors, who are leading researchers and practitioners from around the world, consider the existing possibilities and emerging solutions and explore alternatives to intensive work systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Figures......Page 12
Tables......Page 13
Contributors......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Foreword: I......Page 21
Foreword: II......Page 24
1 What the world needs now is sustainable work systems......Page 28
Part I: Focusing value frameworks......Page 50
2 Organizational visions of sustainability......Page 52
3 The Interface journey to sustainability: Identity dynamics within cultural incrementalism......Page 65
Part II: Focusing work and work systems......Page 78
4 Sustainability in knowledge-based companies......Page 80
5 Sustainability and the ageing workforce: Considerations with regard to the German car manufacturing industry......Page 97
6 Utilizing technology to support sustainability......Page 111
Part III: Focusing change in sustainable organizations......Page 128
7 Creating sustainable, desired change in teams through application of intentional change and complexity theories......Page 130
8 Sustainable heritage in a rapidly changing environment......Page 144
9 Learning mechanisms in sustainable work systems design......Page 158
10 Financial management to support sustainability......Page 174
Part IV: Focusing systems......Page 192
11 A development coalition for sustainability in healthcare......Page 194
12 Three powers of feedback for sustainable multi-organizational learning......Page 213
13 Labelling and sustainability: The case of specialty coffee......Page 229
14 An initial exploration of sustainable work systems in China: An issue of imbalance between economic and social reform......Page 244
Part V: Future of sustainable work systems......Page 258
15 Sustained by work: Individual and social sustainability in work organizations......Page 260
16 Toward a sustainable work systems design and change methodology......Page 274
17 Sustainable work systems: Past, present and future of social sustainability......Page 295
Index......Page 317