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Madison Heskett
about 3 hours ago
In Saturn's self-directed work teams, teams of 6-15 union employees were empowered to make business decisions about business planning, technology, pricing, and new product development.
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Imala Moore
about 4 hours ago
In the Electromation decision (1992) the NLRB ruled that the company's committees were considered legitimate labor organizations under the NLRA because they had unilateral control over wages, hours, and terms and conditions of employment.
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Hannah Brown
about 4 hours ago
When a unionized company decides to relocate its operations to a nonunion site as a way of dealing with competitive pressures, it is called an "escape" strategy.
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Ghazal Barakat
about 4 hours ago
In the union movement, there are some who argue that there is no role for unions as strategic partners with business. They believe unions should be in the business of protecting workers and attempts to "partner" with management will inevitably result in "selling out" workers.
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Steven Digges
about 4 hours ago
For labor-management partnerships to be effective, they must be perceived by employees as a way for their interests to be represented and deliver tangible benefits such as better working conditions.
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Brandon Dickman
about 4 hours ago
A forcing strategy is one in which the union and employees are pressured to accept the changes management wishes to implement in response to competitive pressures.
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Mireia Aguado
about 4 hours ago
In today's competitive, highly technology-driven economy, there is little risk to employees in increasing workplace flexibility but there is a lot to be gained.
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Elizabeth Zampino
about 4 hours ago
One of the problems with introducing greater flexibility in the workplace is that flexibility often raises important risks or concerns for workers and unions.
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Brianna Garcia-Hernandez
about 4 hours ago
The constant drive to achieve reduced inefficiencies through lean processes has been called, "management by stress" by critics of the lean production philosophy.
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Kerrigan Murtha
about 6 hours ago
The mass manufacturing/job control unionism model that worked so well in the postwar era began to fail in the 1970s largely due to instability in economic markets.
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Skidaddle Skidoodle
about 6 hours ago
The goal of job control unionism is to replace managerial subjectivity and favoritism with decision making by union representatives.
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Thariq Seerpath
about 6 hours ago
Quality of working life programs were largely unsuccessful because they could not change the underlying structure of work organized around scientific management principles.
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Jessica Donovan
about 6 hours ago
Quality of working life programs introduced in the 1970s were largely designed to address problems with worker fatigue, boredom, and alienation that were associated with mass production.
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Mannan Malhotra
about 6 hours ago
Under scientific management principles, workers become better at their jobs through cross-training to increase workforce flexibility.
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Kailee Billock
about 6 hours ago
Craft unions embraced the concepts and principles of scientific management.
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Blake Herndon
about 6 hours ago
Taylor's vision of scientific management as a "win-win" for unions and management has largely proven to be True.
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Shamir Shrestha
about 6 hours ago
Calls for increased levels of employee empowerment in the modern workplace neglect the reality that the U.S. workforce is less educated, on average, than the workforce of the 1940s-1970s.
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Michael Mahmud
about 6 hours ago
In the 20th century, the primary method for organizing and managing work was scientific management.