A company in transition: Fiat Mirafiori of Turin. (16th July 2008)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Garibaldo, Francesco
• Is Part Of: International journal of automotive technology and management. Volume 8:Number 2(2008)
• Page Start: 185
• Page End: 193
• Publication Date: 2008-07-16
• Subjects: transition -- crisis -- southern relocation -- methods time measurement -- MTM -- world class manufacturing -- WCM -- Ergonomic Universal Analysing System -- ERGO-UAS -- industrial relations -- work organisation -- European working conditions survey -- Fiat -- automobile industry -- Italy -- automotive manufacturing -- organisational change; Automobile industry and trade -- Management -- Periodicals; 338.456292068
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1470-9511

Abstract

In the last three years, FIAT AUTO recovered from a quasi-desperate financial situation and had started a new managerial pattern affording through an overall plan for business reorganisation ranging from the products to the productive process. The intervention in the productive process and thus, the organisational model, has had direct repercussions on the working conditions, which is the aspect this paper will be dealing with, referring exclusively to the Mirafiori plant in Turin. The paper will comment on the outcomes of a very recent survey organised by one of the members of the Metalworkers Union and will stress the very transitional sate of the workers' conditions up until now.