The Quest for Flexibility in the Mexican Auto Parts Industry: Three Tales from a Multinational Company

Christian Lévesque

Chapter 7 in Flexibility at Work, 2008, pp 173-193 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the search to achieve higher levels of flexibility, employers are using various means, such as coercive comparisons and threats of relocation, to increase management discretion and transform the terms and conditions of employment. This management strategy of continuous change poses a challenge to traditional forms of work regulation and has generated tensions and conflict.

Keywords: Local Manager; Local Union; Collective Agreement; Cellular Manufacturing; Union Representative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230581937_8

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