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86Transforming Industrial Organizations in an Integrated World Economy
Today many plants around the world are increasingly facing the choice of changing or dying. Sometimes the choice is not apparent until too late. Sometimes the required changes are viewed as too high a price to pay for survival. Sometimes there is insufficient knowledge within the organization of the nature and extent of the required changes. Sometimes the needed changes are blocked by what behavioral scientists call trained incapacity, that is, outmoded beliefs, practices, habits,agreements, pol
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87Globalization and the Impact Upon Unions
I wrote this originally as a class paper in early 2008 to explore whether or not and how much globalization has affected the unions and whether or not this has had an impact upon our standard of living. I...
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85Supervisor's Checklist for Handling Employee Disciplinary Problems
Maximum effectiveness is achieved with a minimum of bad side effects when formal corrective discipline (reprimands, written warnings, disciplinary layoffs) is applied sparingly to the few employees who fail to respond to proper training, extensive counseling and informal corrective efforts.
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69Ford and the UAW
Recent auto news stories say Ford Motor Company and UAW leaders have been in negotiations concerning contract renewal for months. Now, as union represented workers’ contracts are set to expire in the near future, another dispute still remains...
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69GM & USA Perfect Together
General Motors started in 1908. While Ford was stamping out teeth chattering cheap boxes, William Durant had a different vision. He saw the automobile as more than transportation. He envisioned the style and...
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68How to End Unemployment Overnight
Our country is littered with abandoned auto plants like this one above. CNN estimates that 42,000 manufacturing plants employing 5.9 million people have closed their doors in America. I won't get into the benefits of free trade here, and I...
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67Freelance Writing Jobs - How to Start Writing for a Living
Freelance writing is becoming a popular career these days. It is actually a pretty good home based job if you ask me. I've been working on freelance writing jobs for over a year now and never regretted getting...
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67A Ford Worker's Point of View - Part 2
Learn just how employees get hired, what kind of training they get, and what its like to work on the assembly line.
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65A Cow Tax ?????
A cow tax. This has been proposed by the Enviromental Protection Agency in its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking as a way to "regulate greenhouse gas emissions" under the Clean Air Act. The environment.. you know. So you think this is...
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62Government Motors
I would like to shake the hand of the person who coined the term 'Goverment Motors'. As I think about it maybe no one actually coined the term because the name is so obvious that it just rolls off the tongue so easily, the name really fits. I...
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