Table of Contents

European Problem Areas of Coordinating Research and Development Strategies in Work and Technology.- Plenary Session Goals and Strategies of the Labour Market Parties and Institutions Involved.- Trends and Perspectives in Work Life.- Trade Unions’ Objectives and Demands for Research and Development in the Field of Work and Technology.- The Role of Research in the Development of Work and Technology.- European and National Programmes in the Field of Work and Technology: Achievements, Shortcomings, Perspectives.- Worker Training: Competing in the New International Economy.- Plenary Discussion.- Plenary Discussion of the Role of Labour Market Parties and Institutions Involved.- Contributions to Parallel Sessions A: Economic Versus Human and Social Goals in Work and Technology Research.- Developing Job Content Raises the Quality of Production.- Occupational Safety and Economic Efficiency — Procedures for the Extended Economic Efficiency Calculations.- Workers’ Participation — An Instrument to Achieve Productivity, Innovation with Human and Social Goals.- Productivity — Working Conditions — Environment — Search for an Integrated Concept.- Intangible Assets: The Capital Aspect of Cost-Benefit Analysis.- The Contribution of Practice Oriented Promotion of Research and Development to a Modern Evaluation of Work.- B: Integrated Concepts of Health Prevention, Industrial Safety and Ecological Requirements (including the European Dimension).- Integrated Concepts of Health Prevention, Industrial Safety and Ecological Requirements.- Programme against Musculoskeletal Injuries.- Prevention in the Programme on Work and Technology — Contribution with Regard to Safety at Work in Practice.- Dangerous Substances Database of the West German Federal States G Albracht in cooperation with.- Human Work in Advanced Technical Environments and Anthropocentric Production Systems in the Context of the CEC Monitor/FAST Programme.- New Preventive Concepts in Occupational Safety and Health.- Strategies for Improving Occupational Health and Occupational Safety in Medium-Sized Enterprises — Approach of the RKW — the Productivity Center of the Federal Republic of Germany.- C: Holistic and Innovative Concepts of Work and Technology.- Policy Considerations for Anthropocentric Research and Development.- The LOM Programme — Swedish Experiences and Assessments.- The Learning Organization: Swedish Concepts — Aims and Experiences from two of the Swedish Work Environment Fund’s R&D Programmes.- Working Structure and Production Planning in Accordance with the Employees’ Participation — An Integral Approach —.- Material Flow Analysis, Sociotechnology and Naturally Grouped Assembly Work for Automobiles and Trucks.- The Need for Holistic and Innovative Research: Approaches in Studying Work.- Assessing Work Organisation Needs in the Light of New Technology.- Sociocultural Change and Unity of Purpose in Policies Concerning the Organisation of Work.- Integrated Work and Technology Concept in Craft Trade — Initial Regional Experience During the Establishment of a Bremen State Program “Work and Technology”.- D: Strategies to Transfer and to Disseminate Knowledge and Know How in the Field of Work and Technology.- Better Knowledge Transfer to Support Changes in Working Life.- The Swedish Commission for the Development of Competence and Skill in Working Life.- Implementation and Dissemination of the Results of Research into Occupational Safety and Health — Selected Examples from Enterprises.- Implementation and Dissemination of Acquired Scientific Knowledge and Practical Experience within Enterprises in the Field of Work and Technology: Progress and Problems (The Viewpoint Held by German Employers).- Research and Development in the Field of Work and Technology.- The HABUT-Program and its Development Measures.- Human-Oriented Organizational Design and Management in Plants with an Advanced CNC-Technology — Research Findings from 29 Swedish Enterprises.- Reports on the Parallel Sessions.- Reports on the Parallel Sessions.- Closing Session Work and Technology Programmes — The Need for Adjustment and Innovation.- Today’s Work and Tomorrow’s Work — Lessons from an ILO Project.- Work and Technology Programmes — The Need for Adjustment and Innovation.- Some Concluding Remarks.- A Short Summary and Tentative Conclusions of a European Workshop.- Plenary Discussion.- Plenary Discussion of Work and Technology Programmes.- Annex.- National and European Programmes of Research and Development in Work and Technology.- List of Authors.