General Motors: Life Inside The Factory: One Blue-Collar

General Motors: Life Inside The Factory: One Blue-Collar Worker's Journey

This book portrays life inside a General Motors factory in the 1970â€™s. Have you ever wondered why or how â€˜the lazy hourly workersâ€™ came to be that way? This myth is debunked throughout the book. Anyone who has ever worked hourly for General Motors, the big three, or any large manufacturing company will enjoy the experiences provided in this book. They will find themselves reminiscing in the past about their own work experiences. Anyone who has had a close relative that worked in a factory will want to read this book to get a feel of what their loved ones went through while earning a living.

The book comes to the stunning conclusion that General Motorâ€™s top executives wasted a tremendous amount of human resources over the years. They looked down upon the factory workers and treated them as if they were â€˜disposable employees.â€™ They never attempted to tap into the vast and almost incalculable amount of brainpower available because they simply dismissed their classification â€˜hourly workerâ€™ as useless. They treated them as if they were the source of all of their problems. They never even considered that with four hundred thousand hourly employees they might have had the resources right in front of them to help in solving the vast and complex problems that exist in the every day world of work.

In todayâ€™s competitive manufacturing environment Lean Manufacturing has stepped into the forefront for improvement. One of the two pillars of Lean manufacturing is respect for the worker. If youâ€™re an executive leader, manager or a student of lean youâ€™ll want to read this book to see how not to do it. One theory of management says that if you donâ€™t like what you see around you go look in a mirror first because your workforce is a reflection of your thinking and actions.

Country	USA
Author	Richard Thomas Gall
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781456716738
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Authorhouse
Manufacturer	Authorhouse
NumberOfPages	224
PublicationDate	2011-01-04
Publisher	Authorhouse
ReleaseDate	2011-01-04
Studio	Authorhouse

General Motors: Life Inside The Factory: One Blue-Collar Worker's Journey

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