The Company that Breathes

✍ Scribed by Peter Hartz (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Gaining more employment needs the customer - while markets are changing fast. Volkswagen will achieve stable employment through customer satisfaction: Every working place has its customer. The title The Company that Breathes stands for a new general strategy of Volkswagen AG. The company and the employees had to adopt this strategy. In this book the author, Director and Member of the Board of Volkswagen AG, describes this strategy with all details of flexibility in time and staff management. Although the systems vary worldwide, this strategy can be looked at as a revolution in work management for European and US companies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-5
Foreword....Pages 6-7
Introduction....Pages 9-14
The new concept of acceptability....Pages 15-30
The company that breathes....Pages 31-42
M4 — the workforce as a source of competitive advantage....Pages 43-78
Coaching — the route to top performance....Pages 79-94
The variability of the employment relationship....Pages 95-114
The Volkswagen Week....Pages 115-160
The new life-curve....Pages 161-180
The Volkswagen World....Pages 181-194
The future....Pages 195-200
Back Matter....Pages 203-231

✦ Subjects

Management/Business for Professionals