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Randolph, Benton – Training, 1990
The traditional multinational approach to business strategy and human resource management, as well as the global approach, are not effective in a world no longer insular. A transnational approach requires global strategy and perspective, local responsiveness and flexibility, teamwork, shared responsibility, and empowered and innovative workers.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Global Approach, Marketing, Organizational Development
St. George, Tom – Training, 1984
Quality of Work Life (QWL) is involvement. It brings employees, unions, and management closer together for their mutual benefit. QWL implies a philosophical change in some basic and long-standing rules of behavior for unions as well as management. (SSH)
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Human Factors Engineering, Job Satisfaction, Labor Education
Lee, Chris – Training, 1990
Self-directed teams, in which the people who do the work are responsible for managing it, are changing the practices and structures of many organizations. Self-managing teams are based on trust and empowerment, on treating workers as responsible adults. (SK)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Education, Organizational Development, Participative Decision Making
