Inside the Ford-UAW Transformation

Inside the Ford-UAW Transformation

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Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel
The MIT Press
EAN: 9780262329057
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How the partnership between Ford and the UAW, forged through more than fifty pivotal events, transformed their capacity to combine good jobs with high performance.In 2009, the Ford Motor Company was the only one of the Big Three automakers not to take the federal bailout package. How did Ford remain standing when its competitors were brought to their knees? It was a gutsy decision, but it didn't happen in isolation. The United Auto Workers joined with Ford to make this possible-not only in 2009, but in a series of more than fifty pivotal events during three decades that add up to a transformation that simultaneously values work and delivers results.The pivotal events-some planned and some unplanned; some at the facility level and some at the enterprise level -were not all successful. All had the potential, however, to further the transformation, and all provide insight into how large-scale system change really happens. The authors-each with years of experience with Ford, the UAW, and the industry-provide an unprecedented inside look at how core operating assumptions are shifted and at the emergence of integrated operating systems for quality, safety, and other aspects of the enterprise. It is a transformation built on a foundation of dignity and mutual respect, guided by a vision of combining good jobs with high performance.
EAN 9780262329057
ISBN 0262329050
Binding Ebook
Publisher The MIT Press
Publication date May 8, 2015
Pages 408
Language English
Country United States
Authors Brooks, Dan; Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel; Mulloy, Martin
Series The MIT Press