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Ford going non-union
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<blockquote data-quote="harry gilbert" data-source="post: 4067925" data-attributes="member: 4763"><p>There's only one BIG fly in the pie. The Japanese firms (like Toyota) have a history of paternalism with their employees, thus the employees feel loyalty to the company and no union is needed. Unfortunately, the "Big 3" chose adversarial management-employee relations, resulting in unions and antagonism. Doing away with the unions will not change the attitudes that many of the Big 3 managers have to workers.</p><p></p><p>As a manufacturing consultant, last year I worked with several Tier 1 auto suppliers who are struggling. They wanted to mimic Toyota, and implement "autonomous work teams". That's a TPS (Toyota Production System) approach where worker teams design their own workspace and manage staffing to meet quality and productivity goals. Without exception, the American manufacturers wanted to call the teams "autonomous", but have engineers design the work space and regulate who would be team captains. In short, they wanted to "talk the talk" without "walking the walk". They were doomed to failure.</p><p></p><p>In every case where we were allowed to really involve the workers in the decision-making progress, quality and productivity went up and costs went down. The American worker is NOT a stupid goon - he/she is a person like you or I. If treated fairly, most respond fairly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="harry gilbert, post: 4067925, member: 4763"] There's only one BIG fly in the pie. The Japanese firms (like Toyota) have a history of paternalism with their employees, thus the employees feel loyalty to the company and no union is needed. Unfortunately, the "Big 3" chose adversarial management-employee relations, resulting in unions and antagonism. Doing away with the unions will not change the attitudes that many of the Big 3 managers have to workers. As a manufacturing consultant, last year I worked with several Tier 1 auto suppliers who are struggling. They wanted to mimic Toyota, and implement "autonomous work teams". That's a TPS (Toyota Production System) approach where worker teams design their own workspace and manage staffing to meet quality and productivity goals. Without exception, the American manufacturers wanted to call the teams "autonomous", but have engineers design the work space and regulate who would be team captains. In short, they wanted to "talk the talk" without "walking the walk". They were doomed to failure. In every case where we were allowed to really involve the workers in the decision-making progress, quality and productivity went up and costs went down. The American worker is NOT a stupid goon - he/she is a person like you or I. If treated fairly, most respond fairly. [/QUOTE]
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