Arbeitspapier

Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work: From Tayloristic to holistic organization

The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks and learning across tasks). We examine four driving forces behind this restructuring process: advances in production technologies promoting technological task complementarities, advances in information technologies promoting informational task complementarities, changes in worker preferences in favor of versatile work, and advances in human capital that make workers more versatile. Our analysis can also help explain the recent widening of wage differentials and disparities in job opportunities, not only between groups with similar characteristics, but also within these groups.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 39

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Labor Demand
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Organization of Production
Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
Thema
Restructuring
Work organization
Technological change
Information flows
Multitasking
Job rotation
Learning
Arbeitsorganisation
Reorganisation
Lernprozess
Technischer Fortschritt
Informationstechnik
Humankapital
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Lindbeck, Assar
Snower, Dennis J.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
1999

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Lindbeck, Assar
  • Snower, Dennis J.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 1999

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