Assessing Organizational Change: The Rushton Quality of Work ExperimentUSA. Monograph comprising an evaluation of a quality of working life Experiment at the rushton coal mining enterprise in pennsylvania - covers management attitudes, employees attitudes and trade union attitudes, research methodology and measurement of change with respect to occupational safety, labour relations, employment skills and cost benefit analysis, and analyses implementation of change, etc. Bibliography pp. 384 and 385, graphs and statistical tables. |
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absenteeism accidents activities analysis areas attitudes autonomous work group baseline basic behavior boss chapter coal conflict constituencies control groups control sections cost-benefit analysis crew decision develop diffusion discussion document dyads effect Eric Trist estimated evaluation experimental effects experimental intervention experimental period experimental section factors foreman gain-sharing plan goals grievances increased indicated individual initiated institutionalization interactions intershift communication intervention structure interviews issue job skills job switching labor and management labor-management committee labor-management relations major measure mine-wide program miners negative net present value occurred on-site observations operation organization organizational participate positive post-vote problem problem-solving procedure production function QOW experiment QOW program QOW project relationship represent research team responsibility role Rushton experiment Rushton project safety practices section conferences selection bias shift South section steering committee strategy strike T₁ Table tion union officers unstructured interviews variables vote walkouts workers