Just in Time?: Restructuring Corporate America

Synopsis: Looks at three large US corporations and examines how the are responding to the economic climate of the 1990s. Ameritech, based in Chicago, is in the middle of restructuring its telecommunications business; its president explains the changes, and the effects of the changes on employees are seen in various areas of the corporation. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was forced into a restructuring following a hostile takeover bid, and managers faced with the task of achieving this are interviewed; new forms of social organisation are examined in a Canadian tire manufacturing plant. Sun Microsystems in Mountain View, California, is one of the new hi-tech corporations manufacturing computer workstations; the ‘new’ company is seen, dedicated to an ideology of continuous change and therefore avoiding the need to restructure.
Series: United States in the Twentieth Century, The: Course D214
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min.
Year of production: 1994
Availability: Off-air recording licence
Sale; 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Subjects: Business studies
Keywords: computer industries; industrial management; manufacturing industries; restructuring; telecommunications; tire manufacturing

Producer

Jeremy Cooper

Cast

Richard Maidment

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