Survey of Programs Designed to Improve Employee Morale in Seven Major American Shipyards

Abstract

Since the 1980's, American businesses have been influenced by propositions that poor morale equates to diminished productivity or that good or positive morale means increased productivity. One hypothesis was Quality of Work Life (QWL). QWL's focus was on worker job satisfaction. By the mid 1980's the QWL influence had evolved into Employee Involvement (EI). Underlying EI was the notion that the extent to which the worker becomes involved in the decisions that affect his work and his work life has a direct positive correlation to his job satisfaction and therefore his productivity. This study is purposely limited to those employee morale improvement programs which were designed to improve productivity and which in the opinion of management did, in fact, cause an increase in productivity whether or not that increase in productivity is quantifiable.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA458197

Entities

Organizations

  • National Steel and Shipbuilding Company

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Employment
  • Engineers
  • Human Resources
  • Job Satisfaction
  • Labor Unions
  • Local Area Networks
  • Marine Systems (Military)
  • Naval Architecture
  • Navy
  • Personnel Management
  • Productivity
  • Shipbuilding
  • Shipyards
  • United States

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  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Systems Analysis and Design