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
Abstract
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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