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| Titre : |
Management description and subjective description of work : differences ? An automobile assembly plant |
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| Numéro : |
05 |
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| Année : |
1996 |
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| Volume : |
III |
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| Auteur(s) : |
Michel LLORY, Annick LLORY |
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| Résumé : |
A field survey in industrial ethnography was carried out in the automobile sector, using the concepts of work-related psychodynamics. An analysis could thus be made of the attitudes of production-line operators, foremen and executives towards their work.
Operators and foremen both give a subjective description of the work which is preoccupying on a number of points : operators suffer from mental and physical hardship and exhaustion ; there is strong organisational and managerial
pressure and a worse factory climate in general. It seems clear from this that sociotechnical aspects of the production-line system have not been fully mastered. In contrast, executives give a purely technical and procedural description of the work which largely contradicts the one above. They deny the difficulties encountered by field personnel in their work, but also their own. On one hand we have the operators' and foremen's complaints and criticisms and, on the other hand: the executives'silence. The contradictions brought to light here have important implications in an understanding of present-day limitations of the production-line system. |
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| Pages : |
33 - 52 |
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| Type : |
Research paper |
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| Keywords : |
management description, subjective description of work, automobile assembly factory |
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