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...Faces. Traditional watchmakers are not letting themselves be caught dozing; almost all are regearing for a solid-state bonanza. But inevitably, the technological change is bringing a host of new corporate faces into the watch industry, mostly as manufacturers of components. Among them: Motorola, RCA, Intel and National Semiconductor. The last two not only supply traditional watchmakers, but also have begun turning out finished products of their own. The newcomers are almost all from the computer and radio industries, where much of the solid-state technology originated...
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...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 the company removed time clocks and permitted workers to supervise...
...Coach. Motorola will rid itself of a division that had piled up losses in the past five years-partly because of Japanese competition. Those losses had begun to threaten the profits of Motorola's billion-dollar-a-year business in semiconductors and radio and auto communications equipment. Wishing to concentrate on those products, Motorola began sniffing around for possible buyers for the TV business early this year...
Similar price raises on Quasar sets made in the U.S. will be unnecessary, whatever happens to the yen. Motorola Chairman Robert W. Galvin says that Matsushita will be able to put more money, effort and energy into the TV business than Motorola could have, and adds: "It will be able to turn our people on as a new coach does...