Executives, managers, consultants, team leaders, and team members will appreciate the authors' insights into the context of and strategies for change. Teaming Up also provides practical guidelines for the essential task of developing strategies that will help transform an organization and take it in the direction it wants to go. It takes hard work to make them succeed. Even good partnerships struggle through hard times. If future partnerships are to succeed, it is important to learn from those that have run into trouble.
Troubled Partnerships is about crises and failures in labor-management partnerships.
It includes case studies of two companies, Bridgestone and Polaroid, one unionized, the other not. Bridgestone had a good working relationship with the United Rubber Workers that collapsed after tough financial times and a change in management. Polaroid developed an Employees' Committee that operated for 40 years as an illegal company union but was so popular that no one wanted to shut it down. However, the committee did not provide an independent voice for the employees and became an obstacle to changes management wanted to make. Examples from four other companies and commentary by consultant Carl Harshman round out this 35-minute video's coverage of troubled partnerships.