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Applied research and action research concerning the quality of working life in the Netherlands started shortly after World War II as research focusing on increasing job satisfaction and morale (Ydo 1947). In this, Dutch researchers were clearly influenced by the Human Relations School. Applied research focused during this period mainly on what we would now call the consequences, for individuals and groups, of individuals’ increasing alienation. As an example we could mention the sickness absenteeism studies of the Institute for Preventive Medicine at Leiden, which were in the forties a major concern of researchers in the field of social and industrial medicine.
This paper is based on a previous one entitled ‘Trends and Developments with Respect to the Quality of Working Life in the Netherlands’.
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van Beinum, H.J.J., van der Vlist, R. (1979). Q.W.L. developments in Holland: an overview. In: Working on the quality of working life. International series on the quality of working life, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9230-6_3
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