This project analyzes the effects of the co-management arrangements built into the first lineof supervision (module advisors) at the Saturn Corporation on first time quality (FTQ)performance and improvements in first time quality. This is a very unique organizationalarrangement wherein...

Designed and implemented as a partnership between GM andthe UAW, Saturn breaks new ground in firm governance,management and industrial relations. Through detailed studyof Saturn's partnership arrangements we have found that thelocal management and union leaders have not only implementedthe...

This paper seeks to engage the organization theory community in contemporarydebates over the role of the corporation in American society by building a stakeholdertheory of the firm. We develop a set of normative premises and positivist propositionsderived from these debates, from a combination...

Designed and implemented as a partnership between GM and the UAW, Saturn breaks new ground in firm governance,management and industrial relations. Through detailed study of Saturn?s partnership arrangements we have found that thelocal management and union leaders have not only implementedthe...

This paper seeks to engage the organization theory community in contemporarydebates over the role of the cxxporation in American society by building a stakeholdertheory of the t%n. We develop a set of normative premises and positivist propositionsderived from these debates, from a combination of...

The author proposes a new Jobs Compact to close the nation's jobs deficit, to create sufficient high-quality jobs to raise wages and end thirty years of wage stagnation, and to update and strengthen labor and employment policies. A set of market and institutional failures are identified as root...

To address contemporary issues, industrial relations as a field of study will have to take an increasingly international and comparative dimension. Accordingly, Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy looks at the critical role employment relations play in firm performance and industry...