The Eurofound report Working conditions in the European Union:
Work organisation which is based on secondary analysis of the
European Working Conditions Survey data has identified four main
types of work organisation: the ‘discretionary learning’, ‘lean
production’, ‘Taylorist’, and ‘traditional’ or ‘simple
structure’ forms of work organisation. Discretionary-learning
forms of work organisation: workers (38%) experience high levels
of autonomy at work, learning and problem solving, task
complexity, self-assessment of quality of work and, to a lesser
extent, autonomous teamwork. Lean production forms of
organisation: workers (26%) experience higher level of teamwork
and job rotation, self-assessment of quality of work and quality
norms, and the various factors constraining work pace. Taylorist
forms of work organisation: workers (20%) report having low
autonomy at work - particularly in methods of work - few
learning dynamics, little complexity, significant constraints on
the pace of work, repetitiveness and m