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A 9 page organizational behavior paper discussing GM's problems of management that now have led to massive government bailout and awarding of ownership to the UAW. GM's management should not have withered in the face of every union demand throughout the 1980s and 1990s. GM's senior management allowed the UAW to bully it into unsustainable positions and abdicated its responsibility to all non-union stakeholders, including the many employees who now have lost their unsustainable jobs. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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File: CJ6_KSmgGMhist.doc
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had many types of adjectives applied to it; apparently "prophetic" now can be added to the list as well. In 1989 the publication took a look at the billions
General Motors (GM) had spent in trying to emulate some of the Japanese techniques while failing to apply the necessary Japanese management or Total Quality Management (TQM) principles. In
1989 the author observed, If the once-mighty GM can not find a way to reverse its slide, the next decade might be the companys last. By the turn of the
century, break-up or bankruptcy (and the inevitable government rescue) could well be the fate of a company which was once Americas proudest manufacturer (On a clear day you can still
see General Motors). Major Events Seeing the Forest In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the auto makers were in the same state
as was nearly all of American manufacturing. During World War II, Walter Shewhart and his prot?g? J. Edwards Deming made amazing strides in enhancing the production of war materiel.
Shewhart had published a volume in 1931 that described the benefits of statistically following manufacturing processes for the purpose of enhancing processes. He and Deming were able to
make amazing strides in the level of manufacturing output of those factories while producing at a higher level of quality. After the war, the two took their theories to
American manufacturers, but they were wholly ignored. Americans had been in austerity mode before the war, with the effects of the Great Depression only diminishing for broad groups of
the population shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Of course there was rationing and even greater austerity measures for the duration of the war while all available resources
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