1957 Research In Industrial Human Relations - A critical Appraisal

Abstract

The people of every society, primitive or modem, must face the problem of organizing their work-they must decide what is to be done and how and who is going to do it for what rewards. They must train and motivate people to carry out the tasks they consider important.Labor economists have long dealt with one aspect of the organization of work in the society at large-the allocation of human productive resources among the various types of productive activity of an economy. They have dealt with how work is organized and wages are set in different kinds of labor markets-what determines where people will work, at what jobs, and at what wages.This volume is also concerned with the organization of work, and it deals with organizations which have economic purposes. But it emphasizes the noneconomic aspects of the organization of work, the human relations aspects.