On the Front Line
Overview
The importance of customer service is widely emphasized in business today. This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the organization and dynamics of front-line work. The volume is based on a four-year study of over a thousand employees and eight leading companies in the United States, Australia, and Japan. On the Front Line reveals similarities and differences found in work environments--such as variance in authority relations and division of labor--as well as significant contrasts between management approaches used in Japan and those used in the United States and Australia. By examining how work differs among service, sales, and knowledge-based settings, it also shows how bureaucratic, entrepreneurial, and network forms of organization coexist in the informational economy.This seminal analysis of work in the service sector offers both a benchmark for consultants working with customer-contact organizations and valuable information for anyone concerned with the changing nature of work.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780801435874
- ISBN-10: 0801435870
- Publisher: ILR Press
- Publish Date: June 1999
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.42 pounds
- Page Count: 320
- Reading Level: Ages 18-UP
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