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Crumm, Thomas A.
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Publication Date
2010
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An insider exposes the strategic decisions that have caused the foundation of America?s industrial sector to crumble, then lays out a plan for its restoration. The author led GM Chairman John Smale?s Scenario Planning Staff in the mid-1990s and Roger Smith?s development of a Saturn expansion proposal in the late-1980s after a career in GM plant operations designing and managing manufacturing systems.
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Publishing, BusinessNews.
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658.4092
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2013
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Complete summary of David Magee's book: "How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from the Worldâs Greatest Car Company" This summary of the ideas from David Magee's book "How Toyota Became #1" shows that the criteria and qualities leading to Toyotaâs rise to the top had little to do with sales results or profit margins. This summary points out how Toyota has created such a successful corporate environment, and how others can emulate them. In fact, Toyota looks at new products from the perspective of what customers want, rather than what they have capability to make; managers have empowered even bottom-level employees to act for themselves. Factual information is treated as autocratic: it doesnât matter whether those facts come from senior management or lower down. Toyota is famous for having a production line that can be halted by anyone, because everyone is responsible for quality control. Executives donât have special parking spots, they are expected to work longer hours, and they walk the manufacturing floor regularly. In other words, Toyotaâs philosophy is based on mutual respect of all employees, and the willingness to prioritize the customer over procedural convenience. Itâs possible, no matter the market, for others to do the same. Added-value of this summary: ⢠Save time ⢠Understand the key concepts ⢠Increase your business knowledge To learn more, read "How Toyota Became #1" and create your own successful environment..
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Green, William C., 1941-
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331.881292097 20
Publication Date
1996
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In this edited volume, U.S. and Canadian political scientists, sociologists, and labor educators contribute to the debate of the crisis of the Fordist regime of mass production and its implications for organized labor. They present the first comparative cross-national study of the labor relations in Japanese North American automobile transplant. Japanese joint ventures with the Big Three automakers, and Japanese-style General Motors auto plants. They specifically focus on the challenges the Japanese lean production model has posed to North American auto labor's organizing, collective bargaining, and shop floor representation experiences and how the United Auto Workers and the Canadian Auto Workers have responded to these challenges. The authors point to the pressing need for the North American labor movement, whose legal rights are rooted in a mass production regime, to rethink its interests and goals if it is successfully confront the formidable obstacles presented by a changing international and hemispheric political economy increasing dominated by Japanese lean production practices.
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