Lajos Héthy

ThinkersLabor sociologist (director of the Institute of Labour Research, Budapest, at the time of Héthy 1986)

Works

In Organizational Structures

Known for

Comparative study of collective work organization in the socialist countries

Ideas

Brigades driven by economic rationality and managerial control. The brigade and group work movements of the socialist countries shifted from value-oriented to interest-based collectives, and their decisive drivers were economic rationality and managerial control, with humanization of work more a by-product than a condition. Caveat: A review of official and secondary sources written before 1989.

Organizational Structures that draw on Lajos Héthy (2)

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