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Autore |
Stahl Fred <1937-> |
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Worker leadership : America's secret weapon in the battle for industrial competitiveness / / Fred Stahl |
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Cambridge, Mass. : , : The MIT Press, , [2013] |
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0-262-31728-1 |
0-262-31727-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (266 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Management - Employee participation |
Leadership |
Industrial productivity |
Industrial management |
Production management |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 America's Productivity Paralysis; 2 How Did We Get Into This Mess?; 3 The Quest for the Holy Grail of Production Management; 4 A Revolution at John Deere; 5 First Change the Culture, Then Change Production; 6 Redesigning the Planter Factory for Worker Leadership; 7 Reaping the Fruits of Worker Leadership at the Harvester Works; 8 A Bigger Picture of Change at Deere; 9 Worker Leadership; Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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How can American manufacturing recapture its former dominance in the globalized industrial economy? In Worker Leadership, Fred Stahl proposes a strategy to boost enterprise productivity and restore America's industrial power. Stahl outlines a revolutionary transformation of industrial culture that offers workers real control of production operations and manufacturing processes (as well as a monetary share of the savings from productivity gains). Stahl develops this new Theory of Worker Productivity into a strategy of Worker Leadership, with concrete, real-world examples. Combining some of the methods of lean manufacturing made famous by Toyota with |
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