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...Procter & Gamble joins the networks' sex-and-violence critics...
...television world $1 million is not much money. But $486.3 million -that's money, a figure that commands respect from coast to coast, or more precisely, from the Burbank studios to Manhattan's Network Row. It also happens to be the amount that Procter & Gamble spent on TV advertising last year. So when P & G Chairman Owen Butler spoke out last week about what the nation's No. 1 TV advertiser thought of television, he found an interested if hardly enthusiastic audience among broadcasters. His message: P & G is listening to the critics from the New Right...
Theory Z-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...
...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 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...
...Centers for Disease Control warned last September that the risk of toxic shock syndrome (TSS), a rare but sometimes fatal bacteria-related disorder that usually strikes menstruating women, might be heightened by the use of tampons, particularly the Rely brand from Procter & Gamble. Since that alert and the prompt removal of Rely from the market, the incidence of TSS has dropped dramatically. The CDC announced last week that the number of new cases in the U.S. reported each month had declined from 106 in September to 39 in December...