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2005 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
High Performance Work Systems and the Production Worker
Authors : Andy Danford, Mike Richardson, Paul Stewart, Stephanie Tailby, Martin Upchurch
Published in: Partnership and the High Performance Workplace
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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The fragmentation of previously single corporate entities into more complex business unit structures was, in both case studies, one of the central building blocks of the high performance work regime. The principal objective was to secure for management a more transparent framework of cost control. However, ‘decentralization’ did not stop at the level of the business unit. Management also introduced production teams in the form of cellular working along with systems of kaizenstyle problem-solving. Both were aimed at rationalizing capital and labour deployment whilst, ostensibly, providing a greater degree of worker input into job design.