A Diversity of New Work Organization: Human-Centered, Lean, and In-Between

In response to changing world markets, intensified competition, new technologies and worker demands, managers everywhere are required to reorganize work in important and sometimes profound ways. Such innovation, part of larger processes of industrial restructuring and production reorganization, is one of the central features of the modern workplace. But the new processes and impacts of work reorganization can be interpreted in different ways.

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