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...ACSR also voted to urge the Corporation to send a letter to the Hewlett-Packard Company's board of directors, explaining the Corporation's February abstention on a proposal that would have suspended the company's "non-humanitarian" sales of computers to the South African government...
...style corporations are not simply a business-school ideal. They already exist widely in Japan, where American business practices and production methods have long since been adopted. There are also a few American corporations that have these characteristics. Among those spotlighted by Ouchi are IBM, Intel, Procter & Gamble and Hewlett-Packard...
...Theory Z companies in the U.S. already use at least some of the management practices that are so commonplace among Japanese firms. Ouchi notes that Intel Corp., a technological leader in the microelectronic field, has fostered a collective work eth ic by dividing employees into project teams. At Hewlett-Packard, worker turn over has been kept to a minimum during economic slumps by reducing the work hours for all employees and by cutting back on perquisites. In many of its plants, consumer products giant Procter & Gamble uses semiautonomous work groups that allow employees to govern their own jobs and achieve...
...that lead is widening. Electronics firms head the rush; many have picked up their chips and headed east from California's Silicon Valley. Though Denver still draws the energy companies, lots of the newest arrivals are moving into Salt Lake City, Boise, Tucson and Albuquerque. In four years Hewlett-Packard has built a four-building plant employing 2,800 people in Boise, joining longtime residents Boise Cascade (34,000 workers) and Morrison-Knudsen (17,000). Hewlett-Packard has also settled in Colorado Springs, along with Texas Instruments, TRW and Honeywell. Intel, the hottest microchip company in the country, plans...
...electronics companies clustered in Santa Clara County's famed Silicon Valley flourish along with the aerospace industry. But after flashing into the age of microprocessors during the past decade, the microchip industry is drawing up its wagons, wondering if it can withstand an onslaught from the Orient. Warns Hewlett-Packard President John Young: "The Japanese are learning how the game is played and how it's scored...