Word: on-the-job
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Office politics is a way of life at most American companies, but few firms manage to make more of a spectacle of on-the-job intrigues than the RCA Corp. In the past six years, the diversified broadcasting and electronics giant (1980 sales: $8 billion) has stumbled from one management fiasco to the next. These included: the awkward ousting of the son of the company's founder from his job as chairman; the dumping of his successor for failing to file his income taxes; the dismissal of a company president after only six months on the job; the firing...
...joined his cousin Psychiatrist Marcus Barker at the Oklahoma City Psychiatric Clinic. Six months of on-the-job training enabled Barkouras, a compelling personality, to attract patients from a colleague, Richard Sternlof. Sternlof resigned and opened his own clinic, the Timberridge Institute...
...on-the-job training has been a very painful process for Carter. He hurt himself from the start by both expecting and promising too much. He arrived in Washington with an almost limitless list of priorities that was too much, too soon. Some close aides maintain the President has benefited from that. "He's learned how to prioritize and to say no," says Strauss. "The Panama Canal treaties were important, but he should have worked harder on energy first." If Carter wins again, says Strauss, "he's got to work on long-term planning...
...test that was designed to measure aptitudes rather than intelligence. He ordered all scores removed from personal records, to keep them from being misused. Says Alexander: "What is relevant is how well these individuals perform as soldiers." Yet, on a test that evaluated on-the-job performance, 89% of the motor vehicle drivers and 85% of the Huey helicopter repairmen failed...
...noting that because of the scarcity he would have been assigned to sea duty in the next five years of his re-enlistment rather than just the next three. Moreover, he claims that the Navy is doing a poor job of instructing its personnel. "There is no on-the-job training," he says. "When a problem arises, they always go to the guy who already knows everything." Barns also resents the stiffening of regulations after the 1974 departure of Admiral Elmo Zumwalt as Chief of Naval Operations. Says Barns: "Zumwalt was great. For example, he allowed us to keep civilian...