DAWSON, Patrick

Telling tales : restructuring at General Motors - 2000

Are you sitting comfortabiliy? This is a story of industrial collaboration change and management strategy at General Motors (GM) fabrication plant South Australia. It is told form the different perspectives of those who were involved. Breaking with the notion of academic detachment, the study presents the process of change as a narrative. It asks whther identifying the dominant narrative, the accepted story of what happened, can be a key to understanding the political issues undelying all business decision making


Gestão de Mudanças
Cellular Manufacturing
Employee Attitudes
General Motors - South Australia
Management Attitudes
Motor Industry
Technological Change