Docherty, P., Forslin J., & Shani A. B.
(2002).
Creating Sustainable Work Systems.
"Recent international statistics on stress, burnout and healthy work organizations have indicated that many modern work organizations are consuming, rather than regenerating, their human resources. The brave new world of work envisaged to emerge from the ashes of Taylorism has not, in many cases, arrived and, where it has arrived, it has not been what it was expected to be. We have witnessed the persistence of Tayloristic organizations (Schumann et al. 1995) and the emergence of neo-Tayloristic organizations (Babson 1995; Landsbergis et al. 1999; Taylor and Bain 1999). At the same time, the post-bureaucratic organizations have not automatically created possibilities for mature adults to grow and develop (Argyris 1964); and where bureaucratic structures and rules have disappeared, they have rather left the mature adult lost, lonely and increasingly stressed." (p. 3)