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...using Bendix's Southfield, Mich., headquarters as a mail drop, she received more than 170 job offers. She separated them into three piles, which she labeled "Fascinating-I never thought of that before," "No way" and "Maybe." Of the companies that seriously interviewed her, Cunningham said: "They did not want to focus on the Bendix event except superficially, at the outset, to ask if I could leave it behind...
Marquette, Mich...
Southfield, Mich...
...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 gains in productivity. The Buick assembly plant in Flint, Mich., which once had very low quality workmanship, used the Theory Z approach in 1978 to gain the co operation of workers and their union. Within two years, the plant had be come the most efficient General Motors facility...
Thus far, Stockman has never lacked for job opportunities. Raised on a farm near St. Joseph, Mich., he learned local politics from his maternal grandfather, a county official and Goldwater Republican. At Michigan State University in the mid-'60s, he came under the influence of the antiwar movement and a left-wing instructor. "I became a soft-core radical," he recalls. But he remained a faithful Methodist, channeling his antiwar advocacy through church efforts...