Gert Zülch – författare

In recent years the situation of production enterprises has been aggravated by the change from a vendors' market to a buyers' market, the globaHsation of competition, a severe market segmentation and rapid progress in product and process technologies. Beside cost and quality, time has taken on an increasingly important role, forcing enterprises to become ever more dynamic and versatile. Therefore, in all areas of production management, novel, effective concepts, procedures and tools have been developed in order to meet these new requirements. But beyond these more technical, organisational and information technology related aspects there is certainly another one which has to be considered more closely than ever before, namely that of human resources. Is not group technology also related to group work? Do partners in a global network only operate according to predefined process schemes with no personal contact? Are the mental process models of the programmers of ERP-systems the same as those of the users? What is the impact of human behaviour and what consequences are to be expected if organisational and individual objectives are separated? And finally, how do necessary technological changes affect the workforce and the individual needs and wishes of the employees.

In recent years the situation of production enterprises has been aggravated by the change from a vendors'' market to a buyers'' market, the globaHsation of competition, a severe market segmentation and rapid progress in product and process technologies. Beside cost and quality, time has taken on an increasingly important role, forcing enterprises to become ever more dynamic and versatile. Therefore, in all areas of production management, novel, effective concepts, procedures and tools have been developed in order to meet these new requirements. But beyond these more technical, organisational and information technology related aspects there is certainly another one which has to be considered more closely than ever before, namely that of human resources. Is not group technology also related to group work? Do partners in a global network only operate according to predefined process schemes with no personal contact? Are the mental process models of the programmers of ERP-systems the same as those of the users? What is the impact of human behaviour and what consequences are to be expected if organisational and individual objectives are separated? And finally, how do necessary technological changes affect the workforce and the individual needs and wishes of the employees.

In recent years the situation of production enterprises has been aggravated by the change from a vendors' market to a buyers' market, the globaHsation of competition, a severe market segmentation and rapid progress in product and process technologies. Beside cost and quality, time has taken on an increasingly important role, forcing enterprises to become ever more dynamic and versatile. Therefore, in all areas of production management, novel, effective concepts, procedures and tools have been developed in order to meet these new requirements. But beyond these more technical, organisational and information technology related aspects there is certainly another one which has to be considered more closely than ever before, namely that of human resources. Is not group technology also related to group work? Do partners in a global network only operate according to predefined process schemes with no personal contact? Are the mental process models of the programmers of ERP-systems the same as those of the users? What is the impact of human behaviour and what consequences are to be expected if organisational and individual objectives are separated? And finally, how do necessary technological changes affect the workforce and the individual needs and wishes of the employees.

Die Globalisierung der Wirtschaft eröffnet im Bereich der Güterproduktion neue Chancen: Sie schafft neue Märkte, ermöglicht eine kostengünstige Herstellung von Erzeugnissen und trägt damit zur Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Produktionsunternehmen am Standort Deutschland bei. Sie birgt jedoch auch Risiken wie den Verlust von Arbeitsplät¬zen und von Produkt- und Prozesswissen. Um diesen Gefahren entgegenzuwirken, sind neben wirtschafts- und steuerpolitischen Instru¬menten auch betriebliche Strategien und Maßnahmen erforderlich.Der vorliegende Band konzentriert sich auf arbeits- und betriebsorganisatorische Ansätze zur Beschäftigungssicherung. Es werden folgende Aspekte diskutiert:•die Erhöhung der Reaktions- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Produktionsunternehmen,•die Verbesserung von Methoden zur Personalplanung und -entwicklung,•die Entwicklung von Konzepten zur Nutzensteigerung und Sicherung von Produkten sowie •die Schaffung und Stärkung von Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken.

Die Zeitarbeitsbranche ist in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren rasant gewachsen. Zwar gehen die wirtschaftlichen Turbulenzen nicht spurlos an ihr vorüber, doch zweifelt niemand daran, dass flexible Personaldienstleistungen auch zukünftig zur Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der deutschen Unternehmen beitragen werden. Dieses Buch beschreibt die Zeitarbeit aus verschiedenen Perspektiven. Dabei kommen alle relevanten Interessengruppen zu Wort: Wissenschaftler und Personalmanager aus der betrieblichen Praxis, Personaldienstleister, Volks- und Betriebswirte, Psychologen, Juristen, Journalisten sowie Vertreter von Verbänden, Gewerkschaften und Betriebsräten. Gleichzeitig wird durch die Einbindung internationaler Zeitarbeitsspezialisten ein Blick über Deutschland hinaus ermöglicht.