Improving Productivity and the Quality of Work Life

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Title Improving Productivity and the Quality of Work Life
Publication Type Book
Pub Year 1977
Authors Cummings, T. G., & Molloy E. S.
Publisher Praeger Publishers Inc
Keywords flexibility, performance, time
Notes flexibilityReport on a workplace study authored in 1972:
"The man doing the job is the one to say what time is likely to be wasted. Also, the man who not is pressed, rushed into missing breakfast, or subjected to a guilty conscience by being late is far more likely to really contribute to a team's performance.
Finally, it says, 'Flexible working is something that will inevitably be adopted in the future, and management have the choice of leading towards a situation which they have helped create, or being compelled to accept something not to their liking.'"