A 10 year story of organizational change.

Turbulence: Boeing and the State of American Workers and Managers

 Ed Greenberg (CU-Boulder), Leon Grunberg (University of Puget Sound), Sarah Moore (University of Puget Sound) and Patricia B. Sikora (Sikora Associates, LLC)

available Fall, 2010 through Yale University Press

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This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) during a ten-year period of dramatic organizational change. As Boeing transformed itself, workers and managers contended with repeated downsizing, shifting corporate culture, new roles for women, outsourcing, mergers, lean production, and rampant technological change. Drawing on a unique blend of quantitative and qualitative research, the authors consider how management strategies affected the well-being of Boeing employees, as well as their attitudes toward their jobs and their company. Boeing employees’ experience holds vital lessons for other employees, the leaders of other firms determined to thrive in today’s era of inescapable and growing global competition, as well as public officials concerned about the well-being of American workers and companies.

Turbulence describes the reality for so many people living through the myriad of changes in corporate America over the last two decades.

Please contact Dr. Patricia Sikora (patsik@aol.com) for more information on the study and our findings. 

If you are interested in academic publications, presentations, and working papers associated with this research, please go to http://www.colorado.edu/ibs/PEC/workplacechange/publications/impacts/