This study uses a 10-year longitudinal database on U.S. manufacturing establishments to analyze the dynamics of the adoption and termination of employee involvement programs (EI). We show that firms' use of EI has not grown continuously, but rather introduce and terminate EI policies in ways...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 America's Productivity Paralysis -- 2 How Did We Get Into This Mess? -- 3 The Quest for the Holy Grail of Production Management -- 4 A Revolution at John Deere -- 5 First Change the Culture, Then Change Production -- 6 Redesigning...

Advocates of lean production argue that a work system is truly lean only if a given bundle of practices, including worker empowerment, is implemented in the proper configuration. In contrast, my interviews and observations in six US manufacturing plants demonstrate that substantive empowerment...

This study uses a 10-year longitudinal database on U.S. manufacturing establishments to analyze the dynamics of the adoption and termination of employee involvement programs (EI). We show that firms' use of EI has not grown continuously, but rather introduce and terminate EI policies in ways...