Worker Productivity: Myths and Reality

Better conditions, improved pay, better personal relations, improved training — these are some of the things that improve worker productivity, but in a very complex, difficult to define way. Macarov delves into these issues, exhorting researchers to make greater distinctions between hard work and good work, work in different jobs, and differing concepts of job satisfaction. He discusses the work personality and the future of the work ethic as increased leisure time becomes a reality.

'Macarov's treatment of his subject is in addition, readable, lively, and often quite provocative, and his review of several topics including work as an ethos, the deficiencies of QWL programs, and the potential significance of work personalit