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| Author: | Morris, J. |
| Title: | The future of work: organizational and international perspectives |
| Journal: | International journal of human resource management
2004 : MAR, VOL. 15:2, p. 263-275 |
| Index terms: | Work Technological change Organizational change Globalization Future Workers |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper argues that any debate on changes in the workplace must be rooted in specific organizational contexts. The contexts are being altered by changes in technology and heightened competitive pressures brought about by internationalization. However, this does not necessarily mean that traditional forms of work have been eraded. Rather, they have been increasingly dispersed to less-developed economies (LDCs) and newly industrialized economies (NIEs). This process is again set within an organizational context, as multinational corporations have been at the core of such spatial restructuring. Moreover, information technology has been facilitative of such changes. Finally, the paper notes that much of the empirical data, particularly large-scale macrodata, does not point to the transformational change that is described and predicted in some of the more polemic accounts of the future of work. Rather, more incremental changes are indicated. A more measured approach to accounts of change is called for, based on rigorous and robust empirical research. |
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