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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/2257| Title: | Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work: From Tayloristic to holistic organization |
| Keywords: | J23 O33 J24 L23 M12 ddc:330 Restructuring Work organization Technological change Information flows Multitasking Job rotation Learning Arbeitsorganisation Reorganisation Lernprozess Technischer Fortschritt Informationstechnik Humankapital Theorie |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
| Publisher: | IZA Bonn |
| Description: | The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks and learning across tasks). We examine four driving forces behind this restructuring process: advances in production technologies promoting technological task complementarities, advances in information technologies promoting informational task complementarities, changes in worker preferences in favor of versatile work, and advances in human capital that make workers more versatile. Our analysis can also help explain the recent widening of wage differentials and disparities in job opportunities, not only between groups with similar characteristics, but also within these groups. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/2257 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2257 ppn:269459626 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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