TY - BOOK ID - 46224208 TI - Production, safety and teamwork in a deep-level mining workplace : perspectives from the rock-face PY - 2018 SN - 1787145646 9781787145641 9781787145634 9781787149762 1787145638 1787149765 PB - Bingley : Emerald Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Gold miners KW - Gold industry KW - Mine safety KW - Hygiene. Public health. Protection KW - Mining industry KW - Organization theory KW - Production management KW - E-books KW - Mine accidents KW - Mining engineering KW - Mining safety KW - Industrial safety KW - Mineral industries KW - Nonferrous metal industries KW - Gold prospectors KW - Prospectors, Gold KW - Miners KW - Prevention KW - Safety measures KW - Mining engineering. KW - Engineering, Mining KW - Mines and mining KW - Mining KW - Engineering KW - Gold mines and mining KW - Safety measures. KW - Personnel management. KW - Gold discoveries KW - Gold extraction (Mining) KW - Gold fields KW - Gold mining KW - Gold rush KW - Gold rushes KW - Goldfields KW - Goldmining KW - Goldrush KW - Goldrushes KW - Sites, Gold mining KW - Mines and mineral resources UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46224208 AB - In almost any industry, the day-to-day lived experiences of workers directly shape production processes. Those experiences are of fundamental importance to a range of managerial concerns including organisational behaviour and human resource management, organisational safety and risk management, production systems, work relations and change management. Yet they are too often overlooked by the executives and managers who design management strategies. In this book, Sizwe Phakathi addresses such issues head-on, providing insights into the underlying social, human, managerial and organisational processes that shape workers' orientations towards reorganisation of work, production, safety, teamwork and work relations. Through an in-depth study of a deep-level mining workplace, Phakathi brings to the fore the realities of how work processes shape the actions of frontline teams, production supervisors and managers. He points out how these realities trigger the informal work practice of making a plan, which is an indispensable organisational tactic for production, safety, teamwork and work relations in the mining workplace. In the process, he highlights frontline miners' perspectives of managing, balancing and coping with the competing demands of physically challenging work, production, safety and team dynamics while at the rock-face. This book will help practitioners, policy-makers and researchers to understand the factors influencing work processes, production, safety, teamwork and work relations - not only in a mining workplace but more generally as well. The insights it provides into the importance of day-to-day lived working experiences will help them to improve organisational, employee and team performance. ER -