Worker leadership : America's secret weapon in the battle for industrial competitiveness / / Fred Stahl

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452842903321
• Autore: Stahl Fred <1937->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , [2013]
• ISBN: 0-262-31727-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.3/152
• Soggetti: Management - Employee participation; Leadership; Industrial productivity; Industrial management; Production management; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 ; genuine worker empowerment unlike anything at Toyota, Worker Leadership creates highly productive jobs loaded with responsibility and authority. Workers, Stahl writes, love these jobs precisely because of the opportunities to be creative and productive. Worker Leadership also offers important benefits for organized labor. It promotes the vitality and growth of labor unions through a shared responsibility with management for growth and profitability.<br /><br />Stahl's approach was inspired by changes implemented at John Deere factories by a general manager named Dick Kleine. Stahl uses the story of Kleine's transformation of the Deere factories to construct a checklist of essential conditions for Worker Leadership . He also discusses competition with China and South Korea and tells the story of production that GE recently "reshored" from China to the United States. Stahl considers the potential for applying Worker Leadership beyond manufacturing, provides a brief history of manufacturing, and even reveals the dark side of Toyota's system that opens another competitive opportunity for America. Worker Leadership offers a blueprint for global competitive advantage that should be read by anyone concerned about America's current productivity paralysis.

Don't Believe, What You Think : Sense and Nonsense of Religion and Religiosity / / by Werner Gross

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910991165003321
• Autore: Gross Werner
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025
• ISBN: 9783662708781; 3662708787
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2025.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XXV, 205 p. 1 illus.)
• Disciplina: 616.08
• Soggetti: Medicine, Psychosomatic; Psychotherapy; Counseling; Psychiatry; Religion; Clinical psychology; Rehabilitation; Mentally ill - Rehabilitation; Psychosomatic Medicine; Rehabilitation Psychology; Psicologia de la religió; Religió; Sociologia de la religió; Llibres electrònics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: What are religions?- How religions became what they are -- The external and internal aspects of religions -- The light and dark sides of religion -- Conclusion: Globalization -- From the Flood to the Flood of Meaning.
• Sommario/riassunto: This nonfiction book addresses the question of what relevance religiosity still holds today and where psychologists set up warning signs. Religions today have a Janus-faced character: On the one hand, ; they offer emotional support and assistance (not only) in crisis situations – on the other hand, suicide attacks are carried out in their name, and under their guise, sexual abuse of children has flourished (or continues to do so). Religions have lost their innocence worldwide. But what exactly are religions? How did they arise? How have they changed over time? What are the positive aspects of religions – and what are the problematic ones? Where do they help, and where do they harm? What distinguishes them – and what do they have in common? Contents: Religions: World-explaining and meaning-making systems that almost always consider themselves the one true, eternal, and ultimate explanation system. – They structure diffuse, subjective inner truths and unstructured situations, attempting to make the incomprehensible comprehensible. – Basic trust, symbols, ritual actions. – What are spiritual enlightenment experiences? – The origin of all religions is fear, emptiness, meaninglessness, and death. – Religions are good guides in the dark of night – during the day, it’s better to rely on your own eyes. About the author: Werner Gross, Dipl.-Psych., psychotherapist, supervisor, and coach. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content. />This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.