The good work - A Swedish trade union vision in the shadow of lean production

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 775-780

  Johansson, Jan ^a   Abrahamsson, Lena ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Lean production; Work environment; Work organisation

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; PROCESS DESIGN;

GLOBAL MARKET; INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES; INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; ORGANISATIONAL; PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY; WORK ENVIRONMENTS; WORK ORGANISATION;

LEAN PRODUCTION;

ARTICLE; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; JOB PERFORMANCE; LEAN PRODUCTION; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; MARKETING; MOTIVATION; PRODUCTIVITY; SWEDEN; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRADE UNION; WORK; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 64049093202     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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