Learning to be Versatile at Work

Abstract

Most people would agree that variety is one of the spices of life. They would also claim that most of us are quite good at adapting to new situations, provided we have reasonable control over the choice and rate of change and the way of coping with it. It is therefore surprising that industries, engaged in variety work and affected by quickly changing markets, should have difficulties in achieving operator‐versatility to maintain high productivity and to minimise disturbances to the management of production. This article describes a project with explored this problem.

Citation

Waldman, P.E. (1981), "Learning to be Versatile at Work", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 17-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb002362