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Creating Sustainable

Work Systems

Since the ﬁrst edition of this book was published, the subject of sustainability

has risen to the forefront of thinking in almost every subject within business

and management. Tackling the latest developments and integrating practical

perspectives with rigorous research, this new edition sheds light on a vital aspect

of working life.

Current trends reveal that increasing intensity at work has major consequences

at individual, organizational and societal levels. Sustainability in work systems

thus requires a multi-stakeholder approach, emphasizing a value-based choice to

promote the concurrent development of various resources in the work system.

This sustainability grows from intertwined individual and collective learning

processes taking place within and between organizations in collaboration.

In exploring the development of sustainable work systems, this book analyzes

these problems, and provides the basis for designing and implementing ‘sustainable

work systems’ based on the idea of regeneration and the development of human

and social resources. The authors, who are leading researchers and practitioners

from around the world, consider the existing possibilities and emerging solutions

and explore alternatives to intensive work systems.

Peter Docherty is a Faculty Member of the Institute for Management for

Innovation and Technology, Sweden. He is also Senior Research Fellow at the

Department of Quality Sciences at the Chalmers University of Technology,

Gothenburg and a Senior Researcher at ATK Arbetsliv AB, Stockholm.

Mari Kira is an Academy Research Fellow at the Helsinki University of

Technology, Finland.

A.B. (Rami) Shani is Professor and Chair of Management at California Poly-

technic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA and Research Professor at the

School of Management, Politechnico di Milano, Italy.

Creating Sustainable

Work Systems

Developing social sustainability

Second edition

Edited by Peter Docherty,

Mari Kira and A.B. (Rami) Shani

First published 2009

by Routledge

Second edition published 2009 by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data

Creating sustainable work systems : developing social sustainability /

edited by Peter Docherty, Mari Kira and A.B. Rami Shani. —

2nd ed.p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-415-77271-6 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-415-77272-3

(pbk : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-203-99538-9 (ebook) 1. Quality of

work life. 2. Sustainable development. I. Docherty, Peter. II. Kira,

Mari, 1972– III. Shani, Abraham B.

HD6955.C83 2008

331.12′042—dc22

2008009685

ISBN 0-203-89002-7 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 13: 978-0-415-77271-6 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-415-77272-3 (pbk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-203-89002-8 (ebk)

ISBN 10: 0 415 77271 0 (hbk)

ISBN 10: 0 415 77272 9 (pbk)

ISBN 10: 0 203 89002 7 (ebk)

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