Humanized Workplace

JEROME BRAUN, an interdisciplinary scholar, is interested in sociology, social psychiatry, culture and personality, and alienation in modern society. He has studied these phenomena using the approaches of law and psychiatry, and has presented his findings in various forums including universities, conferences, books, and journal articles. He is the editor of Psychological Aspects of Modernity (Praeger Publishers, 1993).

• Preface Industrial Justice and Social Change American Unionism through Foreign Eyes The Difference between Arbitrators and Judges The Myth of Management The State of the American Worker Styles of Participative Management: A Comparison of Japan and Western Europe The Practice of Industrial Justice Practical Advice on Industrial Justice The Use and Misuse of Computers in Personnel Decisions Science and the Problems of Systems Analysis The Application: The Humanized Workplace Industrial Justice Formal Social Systems Drive out Informal Ones A Fresh Start Consultation What Standards? The Problems of Meritocracy What Is a Good Manager? Conclusion The Psychological Context The Psychology of Loyalty and of Work The Moral Basis of Authoritarianism Alienation and Addiction Competition Pressuring Institutions and Flat Personalities The Historical Context Minimum Wage as a Cultural Construct Status and Contract in the Employment Relation Industrial Justice and Social Change The Present The Right to Be Average Contours of Conformity "Workers' Participation in the Federal Republic of Germany in an International Perspective" by Johannes Schregle Bibliography Index