Operating Rules in Organizations: Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Analyses

ISBN-13: 9780333754412 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 193 str.

Benedicte Reynaud

Opis

When economists claim that rules are co-ordinating devices, they do not explain how those rules operate in the reality of organizational life. Rules do not indicate behaviour, since their most important characteristic is their remoteness from the solution. Thus, rules are merely frameworks for action requiring constant interpretation.

Spis treści

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Acronyms General Introduction Trust and Wage Relationship Wage Disindexation in France and the Incompleteness of the Employment Contract The Introduction of a Wage Bonus in as Workshop in the Paris Metro Following the Rules: Definition and Practical Implications How Rules Operate in Practice: The Team Productivity Bonus, Productivity and Work Quality at AME, 1992-2000 Rules, Routines and Habitus Endnotes References Index

O autorze

Bénédicte Reynaud is Research Director at France's National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS), and works at CEPREMAP, (Ecole normale supérieure, Paris).