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Manufacturing the Employee

Author : Roy Jacques
Publisher : SAGE Publications Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781446232262
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Manufacturing the Employee written by Roy Jacques and published by SAGE Publications Ltd. This book was released on 1995-12-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary thinking about management is still frequently presented as a set of universal, eternal verities. In this fascinating book Roy Jacques presents a discursive history of industrial work relationships in the United States which powerfully demonstrates that they are not. A central concern is to show that current `common-sense' in management forms an historically and culturally specific way of thinking about work and society which is often inappropriate for `managing for the twenty-first century'. The author is equally interested in revealing the cultural basis for American management ideas, currently exported round the world as an objective science, disconnected from its cultural and historical roots. Roy Jacques considers: the Federalist world of the U S (c 1800-1870) and the traces of 19th century `pre-management' notions continuing in 20th century management and industrial discourse; the emergence and development of industrial organization and big business; the profound remapping of the boundaries of social life which occurred with the creation of jobs and wages; and the evolving construction of the employee as increasingly a disciplinary subject of psychological, personnel and general management knowledge. He also looks at several major current management and organizational topics such as: motivation, leadership and power in organizations; productivity and efficiency; work and the family; ideas about Total Quality Management, Business Process Re-engineering, `knowledge work' and so on.

Manufacturing the Employee

Author : Roy Jacques
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781446221938
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Manufacturing the Employee written by Roy Jacques and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary thinking about management is still frequently presented as a set of universal, eternal verities. In this book Roy Jacques presents a discursive history of industrial work relationships in the United States which powerfully demonstrates that they are not.

Manufacturing Advantage

Author : Eileen Appelbaum
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801486555
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book Manufacturing Advantage written by Eileen Appelbaum and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the hoopla surrounding quality circles, teams, and high-performance work systems has been based on anecdotes and very thin evidence. It has not been established that those employee involvement strategies amount to anything more than another series of management fads or ruses designed to get more out of workers without giving them anything in return. This revelatory book, written by some of the skeptics, lays some of the suspicion to rest. Based on their visits to 44 plants and surveys of more than 4,000 employees, Eileen Appelbaum, Thomas Bailey, Peter Berg, and Arne L. Kalleberg concluded that companies are indeed more successful when managers share knowledge and power with workers and when workers assume increased responsibility and discretion. The study of steel, apparel, and medical electronics and imaging plants revealed much. In self-directed teams, workers were able to eliminate bottlenecks and coordinate the work process. In task forces created to improve quality, they communicated with individuals outside their own work groups and were able to solve problems. Expensive equipment in steel mills operated with fewer interruptions, turnaround and labor costs were cut in apparel factories, and costly inventories of components and medical equipment were reduced. And what did the employees think? The worker survey showed that jobs in participatory work systems often provide more challenging tasks and more opportunities for creativity. Employees in apparel had higher hourly earnings; those in steel had both higher hourly earnings and higher job satisfaction. Workers in more participatory settings were no more likely than others to report heavy workloads or excessive demands on their time. They were, however, less likely to report involuntary overtime or conflict with co-workers, and were more likely to be satisfied with their surroundings. Manufacturing Advantage provides the best assessment available of the effectiveness of high-performance work systems. Freestanding chapters near the end of the book provide full documentation of research data without interrupting the narrative flow.

Job Creation in the Manufacturing Revival

Author : Marc Levinson
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437988598
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Job Creation in the Manufacturing Revival written by Marc Levinson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-07 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Competitive Edge

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309047846
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Competitive Edge written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To maintain competitiveness in the emerging global economy, U.S. manufacturing must rise to new standards of product quality, responsiveness to customers, and process flexibility. This volume presents a concise and well-organized analysis of new research directions to achieve these goals. Five critical areas receive in-depth analysis of present practices, needed improvement, and research priorities: Advanced engineered materials that offer the prospect of better life-cycle performance and other gains. Equipment reliability and maintenance practices for better returns on capital investment. Rapid product realization techniques to speed delivery to the marketplace. Intelligent manufacturing control for improved reliability and greater precision. Building a workforce with the multidisciplinary skills needed for competitiveness. This sound and accessible analysis will be useful to manufacturing engineers and researchers, business executives, and economic and policy analysts.

Preliminary Release

Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preliminary Release written by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Great Game of Business

Author : Jack Stack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781251539
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Great Game of Business written by Jack Stack and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a near bankrupt division of International Harvester. Today it's one of the most successful and competitive companies in the United States, with a share price 3000 times what it was thirty years ago. This miracle turnaround is all down to one man, Jack Stack, and his revolutionary system of Open-Book Management, in which every employee understands the company's key figures, can act on them and has a real stake in the business. In Stack's own words: 'When employees think, act and feel like owners ... everybody wins.'As a management strategy, 'the great game of business' is so simple and effective that it's been taken up by companies from Intel to Harley Davidson.

Buying Practices and Food Use of Employee Food Services in Manufacturing Plants

Author : Rosalind Caribelle Lifquist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buying Practices and Food Use of Employee Food Services in Manufacturing Plants written by Rosalind Caribelle Lifquist and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Made in China

Author : Pun Ngai
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822386755
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Made in China written by Pun Ngai and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As China has evolved into an industrial powerhouse over the past two decades, a new class of workers has developed: the dagongmei, or working girls. The dagongmei are women in their late teens and early twenties who move from rural areas to urban centers to work in factories. Because of state laws dictating that those born in the countryside cannot permanently leave their villages, and familial pressure for young women to marry by their late twenties, the dagongmei are transient labor. They undertake physically exhausting work in urban factories for an average of four or five years before returning home. The young women are not coerced to work in the factories; they know about the twelve-hour shifts and the hardships of industrial labor. Yet they are still eager to leave home. Made in China is a compelling look at the lives of these women, workers caught between the competing demands of global capitalism, the socialist state, and the patriarchal family. Pun Ngai conducted ethnographic work at an electronics factory in southern China’s Guangdong province, in the Shenzhen special economic zone where foreign-owned factories are proliferating. For eight months she slept in the employee dormitories and worked on the shop floor alongside the women whose lives she chronicles. Pun illuminates the workers’ perspectives and experiences, describing the lure of consumer desire and especially the minutiae of factory life. She looks at acts of resistance and transgression in the workplace, positing that the chronic pains—such as backaches and headaches—that many of the women experience are as indicative of resistance to oppressive working conditions as they are of defeat. Pun suggests that a silent social revolution is underway in China and that these young migrant workers are its agents.

Black Mountain Manufacturing Employee Handbook

Author : Rob Friedl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781697236088
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Black Mountain Manufacturing Employee Handbook written by Rob Friedl and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the handbook for men who are in the business of building AMERICA. Black Mountain Manufacturing (BMM) in Greeley, Colorado, is one of today's fastest-growing production companies, and their break-neck blitz onto the industrial manufacturing scene has been due to one thing above all else: getting top performance from top-of-the-line people. In this manual, BMM lays down the groundwork of expectations for the budding relationship between its new employees and their new company. The lessons within, however, apply across all industrial sectors. Not recommended for those who don't have balls, and/or don't know what to do with them.

Managers and Workers

Author : Daniel Nelson
Publisher : Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Managers and Workers written by Daniel Nelson and published by Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the inner workings of the American industrial factory from its beginnings until the advent of World War I.

Factory Girls

Author : Leslie T. Chang
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0385520182
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Factory Girls written by Leslie T. Chang and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, whom she follows over the course of three years as they attempt to rise from the assembly lines of Dongguan, an industrial city in China’s Pearl River Delta. As she tracks their lives, Chang paints a never-before-seen picture of migrant life—a world where nearly everyone is under thirty; where you can lose your boyfriend and your friends with the loss of a mobile phone; where a few computer or English lessons can catapult you into a completely different social class. Chang takes us inside a sneaker factory so large that it has its own hospital, movie theater, and fire department; to posh karaoke bars that are fronts for prostitution; to makeshift English classes where students shave their heads in monklike devotion and sit day after day in front of machines watching English words flash by; and back to a farming village for the Chinese New Year, revealing the poverty and idleness of rural life that drive young girls to leave home in the first place. Throughout this riveting portrait, Chang also interweaves the story of her own family’s migrations, within China and to the West, providing historical and personal frames of reference for her investigation. A book of global significance that provides new insight into China, Factory Girls demonstrates how the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society, much as immigration to America’s shores remade our own country a century ago.

Performance Management in Small Manufacturing Companies. Changes and Future Trends

Author : Vanessa Busch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783668992399
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Performance Management in Small Manufacturing Companies. Changes and Future Trends written by Vanessa Busch and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Personnel and Organisation, grade: 1,3, Griffith College Dublin, language: English, abstract: This text will examine how performance management has changed, what was important in the past and what are the trends for the future. The focus will be on small companies. A performance management system is a part of human resource management. Through the system, a company can see the development of each employee's performance. This includes all performance appraisals, training and actions that have been done and that will be done in the future. The most important process in this change, as will be concluded, is a well-developed performance management system that both, managers and employees, appreciate. It can help to have everyone's highest performance if it is able to value the individual. This is a challenge for the big companies as well as for the smaller ones. No one can say what is the best system, it depends on the company's individual needs.

Manufacturing Engagement

Author : Lisa Ryan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781976320897
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Manufacturing Engagement written by Lisa Ryan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are looking for employee engagement ideas, you're in the right place. It's no secret. Your employees' satisfaction level is a key factor in staff retention. With the high costs associated with your employee turnover rate, it's important to figure out your retention strategies now. Employee engagement is a widely used term, so much so that many organizations consider it cliche and don't take the concept as seriously as they should. There is a big difference between employee satisfaction and happiness. A satisfied employee shows up at work, does his or her job and leaves. On the other hand, when employees are emotionally committed to their employer, they are said to be highly engaged. Your employees are no longer working simply for a paycheck or promotion. Newer generations want to care about both their work and the organization they for which they do their job. Engaged employees bring in their full effort so that they contribute more to the organization's overall goals. Why does discretionary effort matter? Because it means that they are doing their job without being asked, lowering their need to be constantly supervised and increasing their productivity, levels of customer service, sales, profits, and goodwill. In short, employee engagement achievement is vital for employees and their employers. Face it; your best employees have the power to take their skills elsewhere. And that leaves your leadership team with an enormous challenge: winning the war for top talent! You need employee retention techniques that work. Taking an employee engagement survey is a good first step, but without followup action to connect with and engage your team, your survey efforts alone are futile. This employee disengagement trend reaches far beyond just manufacturing. The Gallup organization reports close to 71% of all staff feel unsupported, detached, or disengaged from their current employer. The impact costs US businesses more than $450 billion in lost productivity each year. In this book, you'll find many strategies to will help you experience the benefits of having an engaged workforce. Open up the book to any page and implement the ideas and strategies listed. Encourage and empower your leadership team to go beyond the engagement questionnaire. Find out what employees want to increase their satisfaction levels and then help them get it. The bad news is that disengagement levels have been about the same for companies overall since Gallup and other organizations started measuring engagement levels. The good news is we already know how to discourage top talent from leaving: keep them engaged. With an engaged workforce, employees work harder, have fewer safety incidents, and are more loyal and profitable to their company. Studies show that engaged employees have: - 50% fewer accidents - 41% fewer quality defects - 30% fewer health care costs Not surprisingly, unhappy workers return only 60% of their salary in the value they provide. With an estimated five million manufacturing jobs going unfilled by 2020, it's time to take smart steps to make sure your company isn't affected. That means creating a workplace culture that works ... based on proven results, fresh ideas and new ways of generating loyalty from your staff. Use the employee engagement strategies in this book to help your company be an employer of choice. Engagement techniques work - if you work them!

From Control to Commitment in the Workplace

Author : Richard E. Walton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book From Control to Commitment in the Workplace written by Richard E. Walton and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Made

Author : Farah Stockman
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1984801155
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book American Made written by Farah Stockman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when Americans lose their jobs? In American Made, an illuminating story of ruin and reinvention, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Farah Stockman gives an up-close look at the profound role work plays in our sense of identity and belonging, as she follows three workers whose lives unravel when the factory they have dedicated so much to closes down. “With humor, breathtaking honesty, and a historian’s satellite view, American Made illuminates the fault lines ripping America apart.”—Beth Macy, author of Factory Man and Dopesick Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the dangerous furnaces at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was proud of producing one of the world’s top brands of steel bearings. Wally, a black man known for his initiative and kindness, was promoted to chairman of efficiency, one of the most coveted posts on the factory floor, and dreamed of starting his own barbecue business one day. John, a white machine operator, came from a multigenerational union family and clashed with a work environment that was increasingly hostile to organized labor. The Rexnord factory had served as one of the economic engines for the surrounding community. When it closed, hundreds of people lost their jobs. What had life been like for Shannon, Wally, and John, before the plant shut down? And what became of them after the jobs moved to Mexico and Texas? American Made is the story of a community struggling to reinvent itself. It is also a story about race, class, and American values, and how jobs serve as a bedrock of people’s lives and drive powerful social justice movements. This revealing book shines a light on a crucial political moment, when joblessness and anxiety about the future of work have made themselves heard at a national level. Most of all, American Made is a story about people: who we consider to be one of us and how the dignity of work lies at the heart of who we are.

How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead

Author : Ralph Stayer
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1633691381
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead written by Ralph Stayer and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are your employees like a synchronized "V" of geese in flight-sharing goals and taking turns leading? Or are they more like a herd of buffalo-blindly following you and standing around awaiting instructions? If they're like buffalo, their passivity and lack of initiative could doom your company. In How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead, you'll discover how to transform buffalo into geese-by reshaping organizational systems and redefining employees' expectations about what it takes to succeed. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.