Interpreting the Trends

Abstract

In this concluding chapter, the detailed findings presented in the previous chapters are drawn together and interpreted. We will look at change both from the viewpoint of organisations, and from the viewpoint of employees — not forgetting that managers are themselves employees. The broad pressures for change that were sketched in Chapter One will provide the main framework for the interpretation. But the somewhat simple picture of the introductory chapter will need to be adjusted and modified to fit the more complex reality of current workplace developments identified along the way.