Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Johnson marvels at the change. When he first started publishing, he saw only white faces in the business world. "But today," he says, "the bank officer who approved our $1.4 million loan was black. I know that a vice president of Columbia Records or our new representative from IBM is just as likely to be black as white. If someone comes to audit my taxes, chances are that that 'someone' will be black-and a woman too. There are black bankers in Chicago, the deputy police superintendent is black, the general manager of one of the major taxi...
...they scarcely stir much interest any more, though eyebrows lifted when William Allison, a black antipoverty administrator, was recently named to the prestigious board of the Coca-Cola Co. By the latest count, 72 blacks serve as board members of major U.S. corporations, including General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and IBM. Says Bradley Currey Jr., president of Atlanta's Chamber of Commerce: "The trend is clearly away from tokenism...
...another $1,300 working during the cold, off-season months as a security guard. His wife earns $9,400 as a secretary to David Robinson III, a black lawyer who is regional counsel to Xerox. She started in secretarial work by enrolling in a three-month program in which IBM paid people to study shorthand, typing and English. Now she is learning to be a legal secretary so that she can earn still more...
...striking typesetters prepare their work for printing by a fairly new process known as cold-type. By this process, the workers use sophisticated IBM composition typewriters to record manuscripts on magnetic tape...
...after 14 months of deadlock and costly delays in introducing productive machines. Also, too many managers are convinced that people do not want to work and need tight supervision. Yet experiments in rotating assignments and granting more on-the-job autonomy to employees have increased output at Procter & Gamble, IBM and AT&T, among many other firms. At Motorola, portable beepers for paging doctors and others are no longer assembled on lines; one worker gets the satisfaction of putting the whole unit together. At Kaiser Aluminum's plant in Ravenswood, W. Va., maintenance costs and tardiness fell after...