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Human Competence and Business Development

Emerging Patterns in European Companies

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Editors:
  1. Peter Docherty

    1. Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden

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  2. Barry Nyhan

    1. European Centre for Work and Society, Brussels, Belgium

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Understanding Industry in Transition

    • Peter Docherty, Barry Nyhan
    Pages 1-18

  3. Understanding Changing Competence Demands

    • Peter Docherty, Christer Marking
    Pages 19-42

  4. Meeting the New Challenges

    • Peter Docherty, Barry Nyhan
    Pages 43-65

  5. A New Plant Designed as a Learning Organisation: Aluminium Dunkerque

    • Olivier du Roy
    Pages 66-77

  6. From Workers to Business Partners: Response to a Crisis in Bord na Móna

    • Seán Mistéil, Michael Lawlor
    Pages 78-95

  7. Manducher: A Capability-Based Strategy in the Plastics Industry

    • Peter Docherty
    Pages 96-108

  8. Improving Performance through Entrepreneurship at Sara Lee/Douwe Egberts

    • Wim Heine
    Pages 109-129

  9. Developing Unique Production and Work Structuring Principles through a Creative Search and Learning Process: The Volvo Uddevalla Final Assembly Plant

    • Kajsa Ellegård, Tomas Engström, Dan Jonsson, Lennart Nilsson, Lars Medbo
    Pages 130-148

  10. Semi-Autonomous Work Groups at Audi-Volkswagen

    • Karlheinz Sonntag, Michael Freiboth
    Pages 149-170

  11. The Impact of TQM Strategy on Worker Roles and Competence at Cadbury

    • Michael Kelleher
    Pages 171-190

  12. Many Small Companies under One Roof: The Production Island Principle at Felten & Guilleaume

    • Ludger Deitmer, Uwe Köster
    Pages 191-226

  13. The Development of “Collective Intelligence” at Autoplastique

    • Marie-Claire Villeval
    Pages 227-244

  14. A Learning Opportunity on the Shopfloor at AB Bygg och Transportekonomi

    • Christer Marking, Swedish Metalworkers’ Union
    Pages 245-264

  15. The Evolution of Management Thinking on Production Systems at Clark-Hurth

    • M. F. Ghyssaert
    Pages 265-274

  16. A Human Centred Framework of Learning as Social and Organisational Innovation

    • Karamjit S. Gill
    Pages 275-301

  17. Back Matter

    Pages vi-vi
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About this book

European competitiveness in a global perspective is a major issue on the agenda of the European Union and European industry. The question of competitiveness is often re­ lated to continual technological change and changing work structures to create more flexible and adaptive work places. But these changes are in themselves insufficient to meet the demands of a turbulent business environment, if they are not brought about in close relationship with and anchored to the development of the human resource poten­ tial. Technological innovation and modern post-Tayloristic work structures place new demands on workers. Workers' abilities and competencies must be raised in virtually every sphere - in what are termed the new key/core competencies related to knowl­ edge and cognitive skills, social skills, general and work related personality character­ istics together with a high level of technological ability. At the same time, to make optimal use of the human potential, the way in which work is organised and accord­ ingly the way in which people are managed, must allow workers to develop and use the required competencies. An integrated Human Resource Development approach is needed in which workers abilities and competencies take a central place. European competitiveness, from this perspective, implies a strategic choice by European compa­ nies and policy makers to invest in people and their (potential) abilities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden

    Peter Docherty

  • European Centre for Work and Society, Brussels, Belgium

    Barry Nyhan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Human Competence and Business Development

  • Book Subtitle: Emerging Patterns in European Companies

  • Editors: Peter Docherty, Barry Nyhan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0915-0

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-19972-4Published: 04 December 1996

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-0915-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 302

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Organization, Human Resource Management, Artificial Intelligence, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

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