International Human Resource Management by Miguel Martínez Lucio

Author:Miguel Martínez Lucio
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781446293553
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2013-12-10T05:00:00+00:00

Well the management styles have changed considerably because twenty years ago things that the management are doing now wouldn’t have been tolerated, people, you know, would have just got their coats on and gone home. But now I mean they treat you … [looks away resigned] I wouldn’t treat a dog like some managers treat people. (28/9/00)

In our sample, three-quarters of employees reported that they worked in some form of production team (of which two thirds reported the practice of job rotation). And despite the optimistic claims of those management gurus who proclaim a new, post-Taylorist manufacturing environment, few workers had any delusions over the skill content of work on the new team-based lean production assembly line. At both [GM and BMW] plants, three-quarters of workers felt that it would take less than a month to train someone to do their job and nearly 40 per cent felt it would take a few days or less. According to one body shop worker:

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