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Title Turbulence : Boeing and the state of American workers and managers / Edward S. Greenberg [and others]
Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 238 pages) : illustrations
Contents Studying a company and workforce in transition -- How and why Boeing changed everything about the way it makes airplanes -- Boeing's changing culture -- Living through layoffs -- Working in new ways -- Managing through change -- Changing roles of women -- Well-being consequences of workplace change -- Navigating through turbulence
Summary This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes during a ten-year period of dramatic organizational change. As Boeing transformed itself, workers and managers contended with repeated downsizing, shifting corporate culture, new roles for women, outsourcing, mergers, lean production, and rampant technological change. Some employees welcomed these changes, others wilted, but almost none escaped the ill effects associated with the rapid and extensive workplace change
Drawing on a unique blend of quantitative and qualitative research, the authors consider how management strategies affected the well-being of Boeing employees, as well as their attitudes toward their jobs and their company. Boeing employees' experiences hold vital lessons for other employees, the leaders of other firms determined to thrive in today's era of inescapable and growing global competition, as well as public officials concerned about the welfare of American workers and companies. --Book Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Boeing Aircraft Company -- Employees -- Longitudinal studies
Boeing Aircraft Company -- Management -- Longitudinal studies
SUBJECT Boeing Aircraft Company fast
Subject Organizational change.
Industrial relations.
Organizational Innovation
industrial relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
Employees
Industrial relations
Management
Organizational change
Vliegtuigindustrie.
Organisatieontwikkeling.
Management.
Genre/Form Longitudinal studies
Form Electronic book
Author Greenberg, Edward S., 1942-
LC no. 2010009957
ISBN 9780300154627
0300154623