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Toyota empowers workers to stop production to fix quality issues. But they earn less than unionized workers. Empowering line workers makes sense when there's g
by supertrope 5y ago
Toyota empowers workers to stop production to fix quality issues. But they earn less than unionized workers.
Empowering line workers makes sense when there's growth and healthy margins to pursue. If the industry is mature or even shrinking then there's a heavier focus on cost cutting and metrics/Taylorism to maximize free cash flow and pay it out as dividends and stock buybacks.
- bopbeepboop 5y agoYes, your second paragraph is what people are saying is bad. You can’t eat your seed corn in a bad year — that’s madness! Similarly, I don’t think you’ll find industries which are stagnant on the decade scale… which is where the harms being called out up thread manifest. That choice to “Taylorize” in support of buybacks critically weakens your staff at precisely the time you need their engagement to pivot your organization in response to new market conditions. See Boeing and the 737 MAX for a case study.