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Spreading ‘best practice’ production/employment arrangements in a global organization: the case of ABB

✍ Scribed by P. B. Beaumont; G. Martin


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
83 KB
Volume
6
Category
Article
ISSN
1086-1718

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✦ Synopsis


Is the `one best way to manage' philosophy of certain multinational companies (MNCs) a workable concept? * An examination is made of the experience in one plant of the MNC ABB, looking at both the incentives to change and the plant's ability to change. * * *

Resistance to the programme was found among many managers, and the unions frequently resisted the changes that resulted. * A ®nding is that the plant had all the incentives to change, but lacked the ability to do so.