Research Catalog

Title

The Innovative organization : productivity programs in action / edited by Robert Zager, Michael P. Rosow.

Publication

New York : Pergamon Press, ©1982.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Zager, Robert.
• Rosow, Michael.

Description

xxiv, 359 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Pergamon Press/Work in America Institute series

Uniform Title

Pergamon Press/Work in America Institute series.

Subject

• Management > Employee participation > United States > Case studies
• Labor-management committees > United States > Case studies
• Industrial productivity centers > United States > Case studies
• Industrial productivity centers
• Labor-management committees
• Management > Employee participation
• Mitbestimmung
• Produktivität
• Quality circles > United States > Case studies
• Participative management > United States > Case studies
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Quality circles at Martin Marietta Corporation, Denver Aerospace/Michoud Division / Philip C. Thompson -- "Face-to-face" at Pacific Northwest Bell / Stanley Peterfreund -- The Sharonville story / Robert H. Guest -- The Scanlon plan at Herman Miller, Inc. / Carl F. Frost -- Tarrytown / Robert H. Guest -- The Citibank project / Roy W. Walters -- The development of General Motors' team-based plants / Richard L. Cherry -- The limits of laissez faire as a sociotechnical change strategy / Eric Trist and Charles Dwyer -- The Bolivar quality of work life program / Barry A. Macy -- The Rushton quality of work life experiment / Paul S. Goodman -- The Topeka work system / Richard E. Walton -- Strategies for diffusing, evolving, and institutionalizing quality of work life at General Motors / D.L. Landen and Howard C. Carlson.

ISBN

• 0080295479
• 9780080295473

LCCN

82005349

OCLC

• ocm08344871
• 8344871
• SCSB-96354

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library