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• catalog abstract "These are troubling times in the American workplace. Despite assurances from economists and politicians, job insecurity and corporate weakness are on the rise. We don't read about companies hiring; we read about companies firing, American corporations, bruised by international competition and rapidly changing markets, are fighting furiously to survive. At a time when unions seem powerless and irrelevant, and when management seems convinced that employees should be treated as costs instead of assets, a new economic vision is desperately needed. Restoring Prosperity provides that vision, a provocative new economic model that offers hope for a unified workplace and a second industrial revolution. The product of a massive, first-of-its-kind study conducted at the University of California at Los Angeles, Restoring Prosperity looks at four companies and their struggles to succeed in the new economy. Wellford Wilms, a professor of education at UCLA who has spent his career studying the relationship between education and economic productivity, and his team of graduate students didn't just occasionally visit these companies. For five years, armed with employee badges and notepads, Wilms and his team worked in the steel rolling mills at USS-POSCO, built Geo Prizms and Toyota Corollas at General Motors and Toyota's NUMMI plant, worked the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft, and joined design teams at Hewlett-Packard. Each of these companies was attempting to transform itself in order to survive, and each had dramatically different results. With uninhibited access to all levels of company management and labor, and with the sort of personal trust gained only after several years of working side by side with fellow employees, Wilms and his researchers were able to carefully discern the human side of the trauma of change and define a set of counterintuitive rules to govern workplace reform. Wilms enriches his analysis with the voices and personalities of those engaged in the effort to change, from managers to union leaders, from midlevel supervisors to research scientists, from CEOs to assembly-line veterans. We see why even the best-intentioned efforts fail, and why what works in one place may not work in another.".
• catalog contributor b9615891.
• catalog created "c1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "c1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
• catalog description "Each of these companies was attempting to transform itself in order to survive, and each had dramatically different results. With uninhibited access to all levels of company management and labor, and with the sort of personal trust gained only after several years of working side by side with fellow employees, Wilms and his researchers were able to carefully discern the human side of the trauma of change and define a set of counterintuitive rules to govern workplace reform. Wilms enriches his analysis with the voices and personalities of those engaged in the effort to change, from managers to union leaders, from midlevel supervisors to research scientists, from CEOs to assembly-line veterans. We see why even the best-intentioned efforts fail, and why what works in one place may not work in another.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction. The economic engine of change -- The culture of mass production -- Douglas Aircraft. From boom to bust -- TQMS and the promise of renewal -- Disaster or miracle? -- USS-POSCO. The shadow of Andrew Carnegie -- Cultural paralysis -- The dawning of a new order -- Hewlett-Packard. Remnants of mass production -- Altering the system of work -- A painful transformation -- NUMMI. The disintegration of mass production -- The revolution of lean production -- The making of a new compact -- Restoring prosperity. Toward a culture of cooperation.".
• catalog description "Restoring Prosperity provides that vision, a provocative new economic model that offers hope for a unified workplace and a second industrial revolution. The product of a massive, first-of-its-kind study conducted at the University of California at Los Angeles, Restoring Prosperity looks at four companies and their struggles to succeed in the new economy. Wellford Wilms, a professor of education at UCLA who has spent his career studying the relationship between education and economic productivity, and his team of graduate students didn't just occasionally visit these companies. For five years, armed with employee badges and notepads, Wilms and his team worked in the steel rolling mills at USS-POSCO, built Geo Prizms and Toyota Corollas at General Motors and Toyota's NUMMI plant, worked the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft, and joined design teams at Hewlett-Packard.".
• catalog description "These are troubling times in the American workplace. Despite assurances from economists and politicians, job insecurity and corporate weakness are on the rise. We don't read about companies hiring; we read about companies firing, American corporations, bruised by international competition and rapidly changing markets, are fighting furiously to survive. At a time when unions seem powerless and irrelevant, and when management seems convinced that employees should be treated as costs instead of assets, a new economic vision is desperately needed.".
• catalog extent "xii, 323 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Restoring prosperity.".
• catalog identifier "0812920309".
• catalog isFormatOf "Restoring prosperity.".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "c1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Times Business,".
• catalog relation "Restoring prosperity.".
• catalog subject "658.4/063 20".
• catalog subject "Corporate reorganizations Case studies.".
• catalog subject "HD 58.87 W744r 1996".
• catalog subject "HD58.87 .W55 1996".
• catalog subject "Hewlett-Packard Company Personnel management.".
• catalog subject "Industry Case Reports.".
• catalog subject "Joint ventures Case studies.".
• catalog subject "McDonnell Douglas Corporation Personnel management.".
• catalog subject "New United Motor Manufacturing Personnel management.".
• catalog subject "Organization and Administration Case Reports.".
• catalog subject "Organizational Innovation Case Reports.".
• catalog subject "Personnel Management Case Reports.".
• catalog subject "Reengineering (Management) Case studies.".
• catalog subject "USS-POSCO Industries Personnel management.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction. The economic engine of change -- The culture of mass production -- Douglas Aircraft. From boom to bust -- TQMS and the promise of renewal -- Disaster or miracle? -- USS-POSCO. The shadow of Andrew Carnegie -- Cultural paralysis -- The dawning of a new order -- Hewlett-Packard. Remnants of mass production -- Altering the system of work -- A painful transformation -- NUMMI. The disintegration of mass production -- The revolution of lean production -- The making of a new compact -- Restoring prosperity. Toward a culture of cooperation.".
• catalog title "Restoring prosperity : how workers and managers are forging a new culture of cooperation / Wellford W. Wilms.".
• catalog type "Case studies. fast".
• catalog type "text".