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Diversity at Kaizen Motors
Gender, Race, Age, and Insecurity in a Japanese Auto Transplant
Diversity at Kaizen Motors
Gender, Race, Age, and Insecurity in a Japanese Auto Transplant
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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 men, white and non-white, older and younger workers - work together in lean production teams at a Fortune 500 automobile assembly plant. This systematic qualitative study contains close to 150 interviews with workers from a wide variety of teams. Diversity at Kaizen Motors reveals invaluable information and yields surprising results, which ultimately leads to a greater understanding of Japanese auto factories and lean production organizations overall.
Table of Contents
Part 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Bringing Diversity to Teams in Japanese Transplants
Chapter 4 Welcome to Kaizen Motors!
Chapter 5 Queens of the Line: Gender and Identity in Teams
Chapter 6 Sexual Attraction on the Line: Family, Affairs and Team Intensification
Chapter 7 The Color Line: Race and Identity in Teams
Chapter 8 The Aging Gurus and Young Gung-hoes
Chapter 9 The Underdogs: Temporary Workers and Team Degradation
Chapter 10 Conclusion
Part 11 Appendix 1: Interviewer's Guide
Part 12 Appendix 2: Methodology and Data Collection
Part 13 References
Part 14 Notes
Part 15 Index
Part 16 About the Authors
Product details
| Published | Sep 01 2011 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 160 |
| ISBN | 9780761855934 |
| Imprint | University Press of America |
| Dimensions | 232 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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