A Practical Approach to the Assimilation of Product Change on the Shop Floor
VA Seal
(Unit Industrial Engineer, GEC Telecommunications Limited)
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Abstract
The following notes describe and discuss how an industrial engineering department, in the electronics industry, faced with the challenge of gaining operator acceptance of potentially disruptive product changes, used it as an opportunity to design jobs that would add to, rather than diminish, existing job satisfaction. Two cases are provided to illustrate their approach.
Citation
Seal, V. (1975), "A Practical Approach to the Assimilation of Product Change on the Shop Floor", Personnel Review, Vol. 4 No. 4, pp. 51-56. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055296
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1975, MCB UP Limited