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Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work: From Tayloristic to holistic organization

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dc.creator Lindbeck, Assar
dc.creator Snower, Dennis J.
dc.date 1999
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:09:52Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:09:52Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2257
dc.identifier ppn:269459626
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/2257
dc.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.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher IZA Bonn
dc.relation IZA discussion papers / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 39
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J23
dc.subject O33
dc.subject J24
dc.subject L23
dc.subject M12
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Restructuring
dc.subject Work organization
dc.subject Technological change
dc.subject Information flows
dc.subject Multitasking
dc.subject Job rotation
dc.subject Learning
dc.subject Arbeitsorganisation
dc.subject Reorganisation
dc.subject Lernprozess
dc.subject Technischer Fortschritt
dc.subject Informationstechnik
dc.subject Humankapital
dc.subject Theorie
dc.title Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work: From Tayloristic to holistic organization
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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