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
Credits
- Producer
- Jeremy Cooper
- Cast
Richard Maidment
Production Company
Distributor
- Name
Open University Worldwide
- Web
- http://www.ouw.co.uk External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +44 (0) 1908 274066
- Address
- Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA - Notes
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