Reshaping Work
The Cadbury Experience

This book is concerned with the management of organisational change and focuses on Cadbury Ltd.

Christopher Smith (Author), John Child (Author), Michael Rowlinson (Author), Sir Adrian Cadbury (Foreword by)

9780521109741, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 April 2009

412 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.6 kg

This book is concerned with the management of organisational change. It focuses on Cadbury Ltd and provides an in-depth study of change within this famous British company. Cadbury Ltd is famous for its pioneering personnel management. One of the purposes of this study is to assess how this established company ethos facilitated change by examining the development and implementation of a capital investment programme that radically changed working practices at the company's Bournville plant in Birmingham. At a more general level the authors develop a theory of organisational change that emphasises the interaction between external market forces and internal management action. This approach unites an emphasis on the structural parameters that limit a firm's capacity for independent change, with a recognition of the vital role performed by influential members of an organisation in initiating and managing change. This book will be of interest to teachers and students of business history, organisational behaviour, industrial relations and industrial sociology.

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Cadbury Ltd and its Context: 1. Cadbury Ltd in its sector
2. The Bourneville factory: from greenfield development to maturity
3. Strategic development since the Second World War
Part II. The Accomplishment of Innovations: 4. Technical change and the investment programme
5. Organisational structure, occupational control and autonomy
6. The management of industrial relations
7. The hollow goods project
8. The automatic packing of boxed assortments
Part III. Cadburys and Themes in Work Organisation: 9. The context and process of Cadbury's transformation
10. Managerial strategies at Cadburys
Notes
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]