Management of Productivity, 1984

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>The purpose of this study was to:<br>
(1) investigate labour relations arrangements in large manufacturing establishments, and their relationship to plant performance;<br>
(2) assess the role of plant managers in the management of the modern corporation.<br>
This was the first systematic survey of workplace industrial relations to use the senior executive at plant level (and not a personnel manager) as the respondent, and hence to place industrial relations in context of other managerial behaviour.<br><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>Variables<br>
Importance of industrial relations in decision-making; constraints on capacity working; introduction of new working practices; managerial decision-making structures; career histories of managers; managers perceptions of their role.<br>
5 and 7 item scales of agreement/disagreement with statements on managers' personal flexibility and attitudes to the employing company were used. Those on personal flexibility were derived from Ellis and Child, 'Placing stereotypes of the Management in perspective', &lt;i&gt;Journal of Management studies&lt;/i&gt;, October, 1973. Measures on corporate decision-making, etc. were derived from Brown, W., (ed.) &lt;i&gt;The changing contour of British industrial relations&lt;/i&gt; (1981).

<P>本研究摘要的版权归英国数据服务中心（UK Data Service）及数据集采集版权所有者共同所有。</P><br>本研究的核心目标如下：<br>(1) 调研大型制造企业的劳资关系（industrial relations）安排，及其与工厂绩效的关联；<br>(2) 评估工厂经理在现代企业管理中的角色定位。<br><br>本研究为首次以工厂高层管理者（而非人事经理）作为受访对象开展的职场劳资关系系统性调查，由此可将劳资关系纳入其他管理行为的整体语境中展开分析。<br><br><B>核心研究主题</B>:<BR><br>调研涉及的变量包括：劳资关系在决策制定中的重要性、产能运作的约束条件、新型工作实践的推行、管理决策结构、管理者职业履历、管理者对自身角色的认知。<br>研究采用5级与7级同意/不同意量表，用于测量管理者个人灵活性及对雇佣企业的态度相关表述。其中，个人灵活性维度的量表源自Ellis与Child于1973年10月发表于《管理研究期刊》（*Journal of Management Studies*）的《重构管理刻板印象》一文；企业决策制定等维度的测量工具则源自布朗（W. Brown）主编的《英国劳资关系的变迁轮廓》（*The changing contour of British industrial relations*，1981）。