The Impact Of Global Technological Change On Medium And Lower Skilled Textile And Garment Workers In Thailand

Tins paper examines the effect of technological change on job security, job satisfaction, work relations mid the overall socio-economic situation of medium and lower skilled textile and garment workers in Thailand. It also investigates the influence of job security, job satisfaction, and work rel...

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Main Authors: Islam, Nazrul, Swierczek, Fredric William
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asian Academy of Management (AAM) 2001
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/35474/1/6-2-1.pdf
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description Tins paper examines the effect of technological change on job security, job satisfaction, work relations mid the overall socio-economic situation of medium and lower skilled textile and garment workers in Thailand. It also investigates the influence of job security, job satisfaction, and work relations on the overall situation of workers. Results show that the work pride, supervision quality, benefits, internal communication, fair pay, workers involvement in the change process, personal control and the overall situation are positively influenced by the technological change. The negative effects are increased skill demands, workload, complexity in work assignments, and strikes. Unskilled textile workers are more involved in downsizing from the change than garment workers arc. The more skill demands and more frustration leads to a less positive overall impact on workers. The more involvement of workers in the change process and more personal control over their work result in more positive overall impact. Job satisfaction factors me not significantly related to the overall impact. However, job security, job satisfaction and work relations together are significantly related to the overall socio-economic impact of technological change on Thai workers.
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spelling usm.eprints-354742017-07-10T07:52:58Z http://eprints.usm.my/35474/ The Impact Of Global Technological Change On Medium And Lower Skilled Textile And Garment Workers In Thailand Islam, Nazrul Swierczek, Fredric William HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management Tins paper examines the effect of technological change on job security, job satisfaction, work relations mid the overall socio-economic situation of medium and lower skilled textile and garment workers in Thailand. It also investigates the influence of job security, job satisfaction, and work relations on the overall situation of workers. Results show that the work pride, supervision quality, benefits, internal communication, fair pay, workers involvement in the change process, personal control and the overall situation are positively influenced by the technological change. The negative effects are increased skill demands, workload, complexity in work assignments, and strikes. Unskilled textile workers are more involved in downsizing from the change than garment workers arc. The more skill demands and more frustration leads to a less positive overall impact on workers. The more involvement of workers in the change process and more personal control over their work result in more positive overall impact. Job satisfaction factors me not significantly related to the overall impact. However, job security, job satisfaction and work relations together are significantly related to the overall socio-economic impact of technological change on Thai workers. Asian Academy of Management (AAM) 2001 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/35474/1/6-2-1.pdf Islam, Nazrul and Swierczek, Fredric William (2001) The Impact Of Global Technological Change On Medium And Lower Skilled Textile And Garment Workers In Thailand. Asian Academy of Management Journal (AAMJ), 6 (2). pp. 1-27. ISSN 1394-2603 http://web.usm.my/aamj/6.2.2001/6-2-1.pdf
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