QWL
QWL (Quality of Work Life) Movement Initially a loosely organized network of a few dozen academics in the early 1970s, the QWL Movement had grown by the 1980s into an international grouping of trade union officials, personnel managers, and social scientists generally. Its central thesis was that work-tasks should be redesigned to generate worker satisfaction and harmony in the workplace. The movement therefore drew on intellectual currents that favoured such things as
industrial democracy, worker participation in job design, and autonomous work-groups which operated without regular supervision. Some commentators view the QWL phenomenon as merely an updated version of the
human relations approach. Sceptics have also argued that it amounted to little more than (yet another) managerial ploy for demonstrating that management was progressive. See also
Organizational Design Movement.
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QWL
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
QWL (Quality of Work Life) Movement Initially...few dozen academics in the early 1970s, the QWL Movement had grown by the 1980s into an international...regular supervision. Some commentators view the QWL phenomenon as merely an updated version of...
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Organizational Design Movement
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
...among employees. These ideas became one of the principal elements feeding into the later Quality of Work Life Movement (see QWL MOVEMENT ), despite the fact that much of the OD programme rested on questionable empirical evidence, and an undemonstrated...
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