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General Motors - Life Inside The Factory: One Blue-Collar Worker's Journey (Hardcover)
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General Motors - Life Inside The Factory: One Blue-Collar Worker's Journey (Hardcover)
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This book portrays life inside a General Motors factory in the
1970's. Have you ever wondered why or how 'the lazy hourly workers'
came to be that way? This myth is debunked throughout the book.
Anyone who has ever worked hourly for General Motors, the big
three, or any large manufacturing company will enjoy the
experiences provided in this book. They will find themselves
reminiscing in the past about their own work experiences. Anyone
who has had a close relative that worked in a factory will want to
read this book to get a feel of what their loved ones went through
while earning a living.The book comes to the stunning conclusion
that General Motor's top executives wasted a tremendous amount of
human resources over the years. They looked down upon the factory
workers and treated them as if they were 'disposable employees.'
They never attempted to tap into the vast and almost incalculable
amount of brainpower available because they simply dismissed their
classification 'hourly worker' as useless. They treated them as if
they were the source of all of their problems. They never even
considered that with four hundred thousand hourly employees they
might have had the resources right in front of them to help in
solving the vast and complex problems that exist in the every day
world of work.In today's competitive manufacturing environment Lean
Manufacturing has stepped into the forefront for improvement. One
of the two pillars of Lean manufacturing is respect for the worker.
If you're an executive leader, manager or a student of lean you'll
want to read this book to see how not to do it. One theory of
management says that if you don't like what you see around you go
look in a mirror first because your workforce is a reflection of
your thinking and actions.
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