Download or read book Productive Diversity written by Bill Cope and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out a new Australian model for managing workplace change by making the most of diversity. Contents: 1. The Cultures of Work 2. Fordism: The Machine as a Metaphor for Work and Management 3. Post-Fordism: The Culture-as-Sameness Metaphor for Work and Management 4. The Shaky Organisational Life of Post-Fordism: Contradictions in the Metaphor of Culture-as-Sameness 5. Productive Diversity: Stories of Organisations in the Era of Civic Pluralism and Total Globalisation 6. Markets and Cultures: Going Back to the Basics 7. Culture and Citizenship: Our Changing Times and How We Interpret Them.