Word: cummaudo
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...self-expression, industrial life may be reinventing itself along more local and congenial lines. Unprecedented cooperation between business and unions, fostered by nine years of Labor Party government, has led to a sharp drop in industrial unrest and, more important, to dramatic changes in factory organization. When Joe Cummaudo started work in Ford's plastics plant in Melbourne in 1983, he recalls, workers and bosses ate in different canteens and management policy was "like handing out the strap back in school." Since the introduction in 1986 of an employee-involvement plan, Cummaudo says, he and fellow workers have thrived...
...shift of the late 20th century: the rise of Asia. In the 1980s the bosses of Ford in Detroit acknowledged that the Japanese were better at making cars than they were -- and proceeded to remake their company, in part by using Japanese methods. The new forms of organization at Cummaudo's Ford Australia are the result...
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