Operating Rules in Organizations: Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Analyses

✍ Scribed by Reynaud Benedicte

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 213
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

When economists claim that rules are coordinating devices, they do not explain how those rules operate in the reality of organizational life. Rules do not indicate behavior, since their most important characteristic is their remoteness from the solution. Thus, rules are merely frameworks for action requiring constant interpretation. This book is grounded in Wittgenstein's understanding of rules as having significance only in the course of their application. It focuses on the disindexation process and on the consequences of a team productivity bonus in an electronic workshop in the Paris Metro.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 12
List of Tables......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
List of Acronyms......Page 18
General Introduction......Page 20
1 Trust and the Wage Relationship......Page 28
2 Wage Disindexation in France and the Incompleteness of the Employment Contract......Page 44
3 The Introduction of a Wage Bonus in a Workshop of the Paris Métro......Page 64
4 Following the Rules: Definition and Practical Implications......Page 80
5 How Rules Operate in Practice: the Team Productivity Bonus, Productivity and Work Quality at AME, 1992–2000......Page 98
6 Rules, Routines and Habitus......Page 136
Notes......Page 154
Annex A-1: The AME Teams in 1992......Page 162
Annex A-2: The DEC Agreement......Page 164
Annex A-3: The Minimum and Maximum DEC Ratios......Page 168
Annex B-1: The Levels of Maintenance in the AME......Page 170
Annex C-1: EK1 Regressions Between Debt Levels and Fault Recurrence Rates......Page 172
Annex C-2: EK1 Number of Amendments Concluded Between 1992 and 2000......Page 174
Annex C-3: Content of Amendments Negotiated by EK1......Page 176
Annex C-4: All EK1 Amendments Relate to DEC in t –1......Page 180
Annex C-5: Content of EK3 Amendments......Page 182
Annex C-6: Evolution of the Fault Recurrence Rate and of the Minimum and Maximum DEC Thresholds (EK3)......Page 184
Annex C-7: EK3 Regressions Between Labour Productivity and Debts......Page 186
Annex C-8: Regressions in the Micromechanics Team......Page 188
Annex C-9: Amendments Negotiated by the Micromechanics Team......Page 190
Annex C-10: Chronology of Changes to Coef.cients and Other Parameters Affecting Productivity......Page 192
Annex C-11: Evolution of Labour Productivity in Volume Terms......Page 196
Bibliography......Page 198
Index of Names......Page 208
Index of Subjects......Page 210