Just Another Car Factory? : Lean Production and Its Discontents /

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This study of CAMI Automotive, a unionized joint venture between General Motors and Suzuki, is the most comprehensive ever undertaken of a lean production plant. James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley, and David Robertson address a topic that has inspired fierce debate in industrial relations, sociology...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rinehart, James W., 1933-
Otros Autores: Robertson, David, 1951-, Huxley, Christopher Victor, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : ILR Press, 1997.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Organisatieverandering.
Uitbesteding van werk.
Auto-industrie.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Lean Management
Kraftfahrzeugindustrie
Downsizing of organizations.
Corporations, Japanese.
Automobile industry workers > Attitudes.
Automobile industry and trade > Management.
Lean manufacturing.
Automobiles > Industrie et commerce > Amerique du Nord > Gestion.
Production allegee > Amerique du Nord.
Travailleurs de l'automobile > Amerique du Nord > Attitudes.
Personnel > Reduction > Amerique du Nord.
Societes japonaises > Amerique du Nord.
Lean manufacturing > North America.
Automobile industry workers > North America > Attitudes.
Downsizing of organizations > North America.
Corporations, Japanese > North America.
Automobile industry and trade > North America > Management.
USA.
Kanada
North America.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This study of CAMI Automotive, a unionized joint venture between General Motors and Suzuki, is the most comprehensive ever undertaken of a lean production plant. James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley, and David Robertson address a topic that has inspired fierce debate in industrial relations, sociology, labor studies, and human resource management. Heralded as a model of lean production when it opened in 1989, CAMI promised workers something different from traditional plants-a humane environment, empowerment, and cooperative labor-management relations. However, the enthusiasm workers felt during the orientation and early phases of production steadily declined, as did their involvement in participatory activities. Workers came to describe CAMI as "just another car factory." Union challenges and shopfloor resistance to key elements of the lean system grew, capped by a five-week strike in 1992. The authors attribute workers' disillusionment to lean production itself rather than to North American managers' inadequate implementation
Descripción Física:1 online resource (264 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781501729690

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