The book looks at workers in three stages of their careers early career, midcareer, and retirement, sheds light on generational differences in the workplace, and addresses issues such as job training and work moving overseas. Long-time employees reminisce fondly about the family and engineering culture of Heritage Boeing and many are sad and angry about the new, financially driven ethos brought in by the McDonnell Douglas executives after the merger. Newer, younger employees, with no direct memory of Heritage Boeing and more individualistic attitudes, accommodate themselves more easily to the new Boeing. Employees past and present talk about the exciting challenges of launching new, breakthrough airplanes such as the 777, the thrill they feel when the airplanes they produced take to the skies, and the wrong-headed decisions that plagued the disastrous early development of the 787. The narratives also reveal how workers balance work and home life, navigate changing gender relations, and strive to find meaning in this transformed workplace culture. Emerging from Turbulence takes readers inside these profound workplace changes and shows both the personal and the national impact of today's realities.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN-13
9780810895799
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25046414180
Product Key Features
Author
Leon Grunberg, Sarah Moore
Publication Name
Emerging from Túrbulence: Boeing and Stories of the American Workplace Today
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Economics, Sociology, History
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
221mm
Item Width
146mm
Item Weight
308g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Sarah Moore, Leon Grunberg
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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