Inside the Ford-UAW transformation
Subtitle: pivotal events in valuing work and delivering results
By: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Dan Brooks, and Martin Mulloy
Contributors: Brooks, Dan; Mulloy, Martin (Business writer)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 551
ISBN-13: 9780262029162
Subjects: Industrial relations; Automobile industry and trade; Automobile industry workers; Labor unions; Collective bargaining; Ford Motor Company; International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America
Description: "In 2009, the Ford Motor Company was the only one of the Big Three automakers not to take the federal bailout package. How did Ford remain standing when its competitors were brought to their knees? It was a gutsy decision, but it didn’t happen in isolation. The United Auto Workers joined with Ford to make this possible—not only in 2009, but in a series of more than fifty pivotal events during three decades that add up to a transformation that simultaneously values work and delivers results. The pivotal events—some planned and some unplanned; some at the facility level and some at the enterprise level –were not all successful. All had the potential, however, to further the transformation, and all provide insight into how large-scale system change really happens. The authors— each with years of experience with Ford, the UAW, and the industry—provide an unprecedented inside look at how core operating assumptions are shifted and at the emergence of integrated operating systems for quality, safety, and other aspects of the enterprise. It is a transformation built on a foundation of dignity and mutual respect, guided by a vision of combining good jobs with high performance."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.