In Working Order but not Always Working! Industrial Discipline as a Continuing Problem

Abstract

One of the central tasks of any industrialising society is the creation of a disciplined workforce for the new industrial sector. By this is meant (given recruitment) the acclimatisation of the workforce to habits of work regularity and time consciousness, its training to attitudes of obedience to managerial decisions and enterprise rules, and the inculcation of the general orderliness and predictability of behaviour that mechanised production, with its subdivision of labour and elaborate interdependence of persons and processes, demands.

Citation

Evans, E.O. (1980), "In Working Order but not Always Working! Industrial Discipline as a Continuing Problem", Management Research News, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 5-19. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb027764