High performance work systems: the digital experience - 20

Management styles in developed western countries are undergoing a crisis phase.

Increased levels of international competition and volatile trading conditions are creating new demands of job skills and responsibilities.

The management challenge is to find work organisation and employment strategies that sustain and develop employee performance and commitment.

This book analyses the 'high performance work systems' that a number of American and European companies have evolved to meet this challenge.

It particular, it describes in detail the experiences of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) at their UK manufacturing plant.