A New Model Ford?
| Autor: | Steve Babson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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| Zdroj: | Asia Pacific Business Review. 2:82-98 |
| ISSN: | 1743-792X 1360-2381 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13602389600000021 |
| Popis: | This study compares work organization and labour relations at three assembly plants: the Ford Escort plant in Wayne, Michigan; the Ford Escort-Tracer plant in Hermosillo, Mexico; and the Mazda-Ford joint venture in Flat rock, Michigan. All three plants are commonly understood to be ‘team concept’ work environments; all three also exhibit a common technical organization derived from the same Mazda-Ford engineering set-up. However, the social organizatin of each plant's work teams is substantially different. The single most important variable in shaping these contrasting outcomes was the role of the union: aggressively involved in the earliest planning for team production at Wayne, while arriving late at Flat Rock and adopting a passive role. When the UAW local at Flat Rock elected more militant leaders, this evolving dynamic pushed in the direction of worker-centred teams; conversely, when the union in the Ford Hermosillo plant was weakened by company reprisals following a bitter strike, management was fre... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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