Malcolm Warner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3610671 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Malcolm Warner |
| PRENOMES | Malcolm |
| SOBRENOME | Warner |
| ASSINATURA | WARNER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 161 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1965 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Toward a “Meaningful Self” at the Workplace
The quest for meaning has long concerned thinkers of all cultures. According to Austrian Jewish neurologist and Nazi death-camp survivor Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997), man’s search for meaning is our paramount motivational driving force. It has become common knowledge that experiencing meaning is positively associated with well-being in general. The main focus of the present article, however, is the workplace as the scene where it arguably makes a…
Dilemmas concerning the employment of university graduates in China
This article draws on a ‘within-subject’ design of employment of university graduates in China over two different periods, namely 2008 and 2014. This research was conducted based on semi-structured interviews and secondary data analysis with four groups of key stakeholders including universities, government agencies, labor-market intermediaries and university graduates. The ‘within-subject’ design enabled an in-depth exploration of how changes at…
Demystifying Chinese Management
Culture and Management in Asia
Local culture has long been recognised as a critically important factor in shaping management styles in different Asian countries. This book provides a comprehensive overview of culture and management in major East and Southeast Asian economies. Each chapter provides a survey of the country's history, culture and economy, going on to examine management in the country, together with management education and how management is currently changing. Th…
Chinese Management in the 'Harmonious Society'
The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists
Management in South-East Asia
This edited volume deals with Management in South-East Asia. It widely agreed that this is a region of growing importance economically in today’s globalized world. This area contains a diverse range of dynamic economies, ranging from the ‘highly developed’ through to the ‘newly emerging’, each competing in a different manner and with different characteristics. This book specifically focuses on current and future developments in areas such as Busi…
Understanding Management in China
China has become one of the fastest-growing economies ever seen in the world in recent times. In the last three decades, China has transformed itself from a command economy to a market one, albeit a nominally socialist one, and its management systems have been reformed accordingly. In the light of these changes, Malcolm Warner, one of the leading authorities on management in China, explores the past, present and future of Chinese management. The …
Ancient Chinese thought, modern Chinese power
Yan Xuetong, D.A. Bell and Sun Zhe, translated by E. Ryden, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011, 300 pp., $29.95/£20.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-691-14826-7 This remarkable book de...
China's New Confucianism
Management Training and Development in China
Kafka, Weber and organization theory
In this article, we hope to show why examining the work of the writer, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), may enhance our understanding of organizations. In doing so, his life and achievements will be compared with Max Weber's (1864-1920). We will seek to see how their backgrounds, experiences and writing, in their respective ways, can offer analytic insights for scholars of organization vis-à-vis a number of key concepts in the field, such as bureaucracy,…
The Consequences of the Sars Epidemic for China's Employment and Human Resources
This article deals with the impact of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) on the Chinese employment. We look, first, at the broader economic impact and second, discuss the sectorial and industrial effects and then third, focus specifically on the implications in terms of employment and human resources for the service industries, such as hotels and hospitality. The tentative conclusions of our study point to SARS having a discernable but shor…
Millais, Sir John Everett
China's HRM revisited
This contribution discusses the degree to which changes in human resource management (HRM) have taken place in the China since the Special Issue on HRM in the Asia Pacific Region came out in 1997. At that time, we spoke of ‘relative convergence’ as being the main feature of Chinese HRM; this remains largely the case. As the non-state owned sectors in the Chinese economy expand and state-owned enterprises shrink correspondingly, the impact of Worl…
From “Iron Rice Bowl” to Labor Market in Two Decades
This article examines how management-labor relations and labor legislation have evolved in China since Deng Xiaoping's “Open Door” reforms were introduced in 1979 and how they have changed over the two decades since then. We reconsider the role of Chinese trade unions, enterprises and the state agencies involved, as they move from an employment system that was once called the “iron rice bowl” to a new one based on market forces. This change raise…
A customer‐driven model of job design
The considerable debate about the level of discretion that should be accorded workers in performing production tasks has often lacked effective conceptual support. The authors develop a job discretion model based on customer preferences. The model is empirically tested and used to resolve the discretion question and clarify relevant job design and human resource issues
Changing Workplace Relations in the Chinese Economy
The Origins of Chinese ‘Industrial Relations’
This chapter explores the origins of Chinese 'industrial relations' by examining the past literature as well as contemporary writings. The analysis is divided into the following sections: this section sets out a number of introductory remarks; Section 2 reviews the evolution and changes of the concepts of industrial relations in recent Chinese history; Sections 3 and 4 illustrate their usage in today's China, as well as dilemmas in the present tr…
Industrial Change in China
The Ongoing Evolution of Chinese Industrial Relations
Technology, culture and craft
Labour process writers tend to view the use of non‐discretionary job tasks in Japanese style manufacturing as a form of de‐skilling. The authors argue that the limits of human accuracy and the statistical realities of sequential production make non‐discretionary job tasks a necessary condition for high quality engineered products. Cultural and scale barriers to achieving this condition are identified and analysed
Labour Relations and Political Change in Eastern Europe
Comparative Management
The Management of Human Resources in Chinese Industry
- Conclusions - Appendices - Endnotes - References - Index
Societal Differences in Organizing Manufacturing Units
The literature has largely tended to consider organizations as distinct from societal processes and institutions, and to emphasize convergent and 'culture-free' elements of organization. By cross-national comparisons of closely matched factories in France, West Germany, and Great Britain, this paper shows that more pervasive differences exist than are usually recognized. Organizational processes of differentiation and inte gration can be seen to …
Kafka, Weber and organization theory
In this article, we hope to show why examining the work of the writer, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), may enhance our understanding of organizations. In doing so, his life and achievements will be compared with Max Weber's (1864-1920). We will seek to see how their backgrounds, experiences and writing, in their respective ways, can offer analytic insights for scholars of organization vis-à-vis a number of key concepts in the field, such as bureaucracy,…
Towards an Organizational Study of Trade Unions
This paper develops modes of analysis for three major issues in the study of trade unions as organizations. These are, first, their distinctiveness as a discrete type of organization; secondly, the nature of their membership attachment; and thirdly, their twin rationales of representation and administration. The integration of these analyses within a new framework is then pursued. This framework serves to suggest propositions requiring empirical …
Organizational Context and Control of Policy in the Television Newsroom
Taylorism, new technology and just‐in‐time systems in Japanese manufacturing
This article attempts to examine what is believed to be a significant overall Taylorist influence in Japanese manufacturing as well as a specific manifestation of this phenomenon, namely the unique flow requirements of the generic Toyota system (JIT). The use of unbufferred flow, it is argued, is feasible only with consistent quality, thus making non‐discretionary Taylorist job design a necessary condition
How Chinese Managers Learn
How do Chinese managers learn to do their job? Management training has become a vital necessity for China under the economic reforms. This book, based on empirical study of the institutions involved
Challenge to Power
Dilemmas concerning the employment of university graduates in China
This article draws on a ‘within-subject’ design of employment of university graduates in China over two different periods, namely 2008 and 2014. This research was conducted based on semi-structured interviews and secondary data analysis with four groups of key stakeholders including universities, government agencies, labor-market intermediaries and university graduates. The ‘within-subject’ design enabled an in-depth exploration of how changes at…
Organizational Behavior Revisited
This article attempts to reappraise over 100 years of theorizing about organizations. It starts by looking again at the chronology of the development of the field and examines problems of categorization and periodization. It reviews the Classical Approaches, including Scientific Management, then Human Relations and the arrival of Organizational Behavior as an interdisciplinary field of study. It then goes on to discuss the challenges to the mains…
New technology, innovation and training
This article is based on a survey of manufacturing sites, and the relation between production innovation and skills provision strategies encountered therein. It discusses the ways in which trends towards process integration and product flexibility are encouraging moves away from the traditional dependence on ‘off‐the‐shelf’skills recruitment and towards a greater emphasis on training, often of a flexible and cross‐disciplinary type
Managing Human Resources in China
This paper deals with management, industrial training and human resources develop ment in six Chinese business corporations, in both heavy and light industrial contexts in the post-Cultural Revolution period. It covers organization, training, apprenticeship, promotion, grading and rewards. It concludes that greater professionalism and specialization now characterize Chinese firms, partly based on structural responses from before the Cultural Revo…
Understanding Management in China
China has become one of the fastest-growing economies ever seen in the world in recent times. In the last three decades, China has transformed itself from a command economy to a market one, albeit a nominally socialist one, and its management systems have been reformed accordingly. In the light of these changes, Malcolm Warner, one of the leading authorities on management in China, explores the past, present and future of Chinese management. The …
Management Training and Development in China
Further Thoughts on Experiments in Industrial Democracy and Self-Management
Participation is developing its own mythology, with Germany, or Yugoslavia, becoming the Mecca, depending on the model of industrial democracy chosen. Britain, some observers claim, has de facto workers' control via shop-steward power. Can empirical research produce hard evidence, and sift realitiesfrom myths? The paper argues that we need a contingency theory of industrial democracy with appropriate organizational designs for each national setti…
Structure of Organizations in Occupational Interest Associations
This paper reports an extension of the Aston studies of organizational structure to the field of occupational interest associations. The sample consisted of six trade unions and one professional association. The fundamental relationships of the dimensions of organizational structure to each other, and to size (whether number of employees, members or branches), were shown to hold in this new context. A greater Centralization of occupational intere…
Toward a “Meaningful Self” at the Workplace
The quest for meaning has long concerned thinkers of all cultures. According to Austrian Jewish neurologist and Nazi death-camp survivor Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997), man’s search for meaning is our paramount motivational driving force. It has become common knowledge that experiencing meaning is positively associated with well-being in general. The main focus of the present article, however, is the workplace as the scene where it arguably makes a…
Ancient Chinese thought, modern Chinese power
Yan Xuetong, D.A. Bell and Sun Zhe, translated by E. Ryden, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011, 300 pp., $29.95/£20.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-691-14826-7 This remarkable book de...
A customer‐driven model of job design
The considerable debate about the level of discretion that should be accorded workers in performing production tasks has often lacked effective conceptual support. The authors develop a job discretion model based on customer preferences. The model is empirically tested and used to resolve the discretion question and clarify relevant job design and human resource issues
The Ongoing Evolution of Chinese Industrial Relations
The Manufacture of News
Bureaucratic and Electoral Control in Occupational Interest Associations
This paper reports an extension of the Aston studies of organizational structure to the field of occupational interest associations. The sample consisted of six trade unions and one professional association. The structural consequences of the democratic institutions of occupational interest associations were examined and a high degree of electoral control over full-time officials was found to be associated with lower levels of the standardization…
Voting and Allied Systems in Group Decision-Making
Politics, Privacy, and Computers
Decision-Making in American T.V. Political News
Politics, Privacy, and Computers
Communism and the British Trade Unions 1924-1933
The Pattern of Opposition in British and American Unions
A survey of the extent of electoral opposition for top posts in 31 British, and 51 American unions of manual workers reveals great differences between and within the two countries, with more competition or opposition than might have been expected. An examination of organizational differences between the two sets of unions leads to the conclusion that most of the formal differences might be expected to generate more opposition in the British cases…
On Measuring and Explaining Union Democracy
The Martin communication generates more heat than is warranted by the extent and nature of the disagreement over indicators of democracy, and is mistaken in emphasizing contextual variables at the expense of formal organization. The measurement of democracy. Since democracy is multidimensional conceptually, only a number of measures of various aspects of union democracy over a period of time could do justice to the situation in any particular uni…
Voting and Allied Systems in Group Decision-Making
Unions, Automation and Technology
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Organizational Context and Control of Policy in the Television Newsroom
Labour in Society and Politics
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Company Boards
Journalists at Work
Towards an Organizational Study of Trade Unions
This paper develops modes of analysis for three major issues in the study of trade unions as organizations. These are, first, their distinctiveness as a discrete type of organization; secondly, the nature of their membership attachment; and thirdly, their twin rationales of representation and administration. The integration of these analyses within a new framework is then pursued. This framework serves to suggest propositions requiring empirical …
Structure of Organizations in Occupational Interest Associations
This paper reports an extension of the Aston studies of organizational structure to the field of occupational interest associations. The sample consisted of six trade unions and one professional association. The fundamental relationships of the dimensions of organizational structure to each other, and to size (whether number of employees, members or branches), were shown to hold in this new context. A greater Centralization of occupational intere…
The Manufacture of News
Action Research and Organizational Change
Bureaucratic and Electoral Control in Occupational Interest Associations
This paper reports an extension of the Aston studies of organizational structure to the field of occupational interest associations. The sample consisted of six trade unions and one professional association. The structural consequences of the democratic institutions of occupational interest associations were examined and a high degree of electoral control over full-time officials was found to be associated with lower levels of the standardization…
The Sociology of the Workplace
The Data‐Bank Fiasco
Further Thoughts on Experiments in Industrial Democracy and Self-Management
Participation is developing its own mythology, with Germany, or Yugoslavia, becoming the Mecca, depending on the model of industrial democracy chosen. Britain, some observers claim, has de facto workers' control via shop-steward power. Can empirical research produce hard evidence, and sift realitiesfrom myths? The paper argues that we need a contingency theory of industrial democracy with appropriate organizational designs for each national setti…
Comparative Union Democracy
Comparative Union Democracy
Comparative Union Democracy
Comparative Union Democracy
Societal Differences in Organizing Manufacturing Units
The literature has largely tended to consider organizations as distinct from societal processes and institutions, and to emphasize convergent and 'culture-free' elements of organization. By cross-national comparisons of closely matched factories in France, West Germany, and Great Britain, this paper shows that more pervasive differences exist than are usually recognized. Organizational processes of differentiation and inte gration can be seen to …
Challenge to Power
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