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CHAPTER 15 – ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN AND CULTURE

Organisational culture

• www.culturalleadership.org.uk
• www.accenture.com/Global/Outsourcing/-/Using+Culture.htm
• www.tnellen.com/ted/tc/schein.html

 

Work teams

• www.caw.ca/whoweare (trade union view of work teams)
• http://www.tech.purdue.edu/ols/ (centre for the study of work teams)
• www.shell.ca (example of a team-based organization design)

 

Business process re-engineering

• www.accenture.com (search the website for ‘business process engineering’)

 

Contingency theory

• http://jmis.bentley.edu/keywords/k_533

 

Alternative viewpoints

• https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook (s ize of transnational corporations)
• www.corpwatch.org (American-based organization that critiques global capitalism)

 

CHAPTER 16 – TECHNOLOGY IN WORK ORGANIZATIONS

Relationship between technology and work

• www.informationweek.com
• www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-005X.2005.00154.x
• www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/10/17/wireless.overview/index.html
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/357993.stm
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4115073.stm
• www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/exclusions/supplements/microsoft06/micro1.xml
• http://jbrister.blogspot.com/ (one person’s blog on the subject)

 

Deskilling

• www.pcs.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=902039 (staff strikes over deskilling)
• www.lkl.ac.uk/rnoss/foresight/richardnoss.doc (deskilling and the knowledge economy)

 

Technology and gender

• http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/trinity/t_and_g.html

 

 

CHAPTER 17 – HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

General information

• www.berr.gov.uk/employment/research-evaluation/wers-98/index.html (1998 employee relations survey)
• www.berr.gov.uk/employment/research-evaluation/wers-2004/index.html (2004 employee relations survey including information on job responsibilities of HR specialists)
• http://www.xpdnc.com/links/hr.html

Cultural diversity

• www.ciber.msu.edu (general information)
• www.shrm.org/diversity (website of the Society for HRM)
• www.shrm.org/trends (reports on workplace trends and forecasting)
• www.diversityworking.com/employerZone/diversityManagement/?id=3

 

Comparative HRM

• www.tcd.ie/ERC/ ( Ireland)
• www.workindex.com ( USA)
• www.clc-ctc.ca ( Canada)
• www.hrmguide.net/australia ( Australia)
• http://findarticles.com (enter your search criteria in the box at the top of the page and search freely-available articles from BNET)
• www.wfpma.com/apfhrm.html (information on HRM in Asia-Pacific countries)

 

Trade unions

• www.tuc.org.uk (trade unions in Britain)
• www.ilo.org (comparative information on trade unions)
• http://europa.eu/index_en.htm (collective bargaining developments in the EU)