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Job Classifications and Plant Performance in the Auto Industry
Author(s) -
KEEFE JEFFREY H.,
KATZ HARRY C.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.1990.tb00744.x
Subject(s) - productivity , quality (philosophy) , modernization theory , affect (linguistics) , operations management , business , industrial organization , econometrics , labour economics , economics , psychology , economic growth , philosophy , communication , epistemology
This study assess the relationship between plant economic performance and job classifications, using data from a large, unionized, automobile manufacturer. Combining skilled and semi‐skilled job classifications leads to small improvements in economic performance, while reductions in the member of assembly job classifications affect neither plant productivity nor plant quality. The data also reveal that classification reductions predict plant modernization, although the magnitude of this effect varies with the occupational group.