Diversity at Kaizen Motors
Gender, Race, Age, and Insecurity in a Japanese Auto Transplant
Corporations pour billions of dollars into diversity training without taking the time to research what diversity actually means for the people on the shop-floor. This book reveals the dynamics of gender, race and age as workers experience it for themselves. This methodical case study exposes the rhetoric of diversity to the realities and pressures of lean production in a blue collar environment. Diversity at Kaizen Motors brings the Japanese encounter with American diversity into focus by explaining how a major Japanese auto factory has tried to implement and manage diversity. The case study also evaluates how diverse Americans - women and me…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Janoski, Thomas
- ISBN: 978-0-7618-5594-1
- EAN: 9780761855941
- Produktnummer: 11779297
- Verlag: University Press Of America
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.3 cm 394 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 394
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Darina Lepadatu is associate director of the Ph.D. program in international conflict management and assistant professor of sociology at Kennesaw State University, Atlanta. She holds a BA degree in sociology, a master's degree in management of non-profit organizations from University of Bucharest, Romania, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Kentucky. She is currently working on an NSF grant on the maturing of lean production with her co-author. Thomas Janoski received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at both the University of California and Duke University and is now a professor at the University of Kentucky. He recently published The Ironies of Citizenship and is currently working on The Vortex of Labor: The Global Divisions of Work and Investment.
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