The Gold Collar Worker

Download or read book The Gold Collar Worker written by R E Kelley and published by Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley. This book was released on 1985-01-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay on the personnel management of professional workers in the USA - examines occupational structure, occupational qualifications, work attitudes, labour productivity, wages, etc. Among nonmanual workers whose work involves creative thinking, Innovation, or complex problem solving ('gold-collar workers'); discusses the failure of traditional personnel management techniques in this respect; proposes alternatives destined to improve Motivation and job satisfaction; considers use of computerization to increase the brainpower of highly qualified workers.