Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Perspectives on Job Redesign -- Introduction -- The Term Job Redesign -- Current Interest in Job Redesign -- Evidence on the Human and Organisational Consequences of Job Design and Redesign -- Factors Affecting the Diffusion of Job Redesign -- The Point of Advance or Retreat -- 2. Economic and Structural Aanlysis of Job Redesign -- Introduction -- The Core of Job Redesign Theory -- Empirical Support for Job Redesign Theory -- The Capitalist Employment Relationship : Marx, Taylor, Baldamus -- Criticisms and Critiques of Job Redesign Theory -- Assumptions Underlying the Theory -- Problematic Empirical Findings in Job Redesign Cases -- Case Studies -- Costs of Job Redesign -- Conclusions -- 3. Job Redesign and Trade Union Responses : Past Problems and Future Prospects -- Introduction -- Some Definitional Problems - 'Calling a Spade an Implement for Soil Displacement' -- Determinants of the 'Traditional' Response -- Future Prospects : Facing up to Technological Change -- 4. Collective Bargaining and Job Redesign -- Introduction -- The Case Study : The Introduction of the New Working Relationship Agreement -- Origins of the Work Re-organisation -- The Effects of NWRA -- Manning and Redundancy -- Payment for Change and the Grading Structure -- The General Effects of Job Enrichment -- Differences of Interpretation -- Inter-Union Effects -- Reactions to Job Enrichment -- Some Consequences of the Implementation -- Conclusions -- 5. The Process of Change Practical Paradigms For Redesigning Jobs -- Introduction -- The Change Process as a Black Box -- Practical Paradigms for Job Design Strategy -- Paradigm One : Diagnosis -- Paradigm Two : Prevention Versus Cure