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The Company that Breathes

Every Job has a Customer

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-5
  2. Foreword

    • Peter Hartz
    Pages 6-7
  3. Introduction

    • Peter Hartz
    Pages 9-14
  4. The new concept of acceptability

    • Peter Hartz
    Pages 15-30
  5. The company that breathes

    • Peter Hartz
    Pages 31-42
  6. The Volkswagen Week

    • Peter Hartz
    Pages 115-160
  7. The new life-curve

    • Peter Hartz
    Pages 161-180
  8. The Volkswagen World

    • Peter Hartz
    Pages 181-194
  9. The future

    • Peter Hartz
    Pages 195-200
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 203-231

About this book

Gaining more employment needs the customer - while markets are changing fast. Volkswagen will achieve stable employment through customer satisfaction: Every working place has its customer. The title The Company that Breathes stands for a new general strategy of Volkswagen AG. The company and the employees had to adopt this strategy. In this book the author, Director and Member of the Board of Volkswagen AG, describes this strategy with all details of flexibility in time and staff management. Although the systems vary worldwide, this strategy can be looked at as a revolution in work management for European and US companies.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Company that Breathes

  • Book Subtitle: Every Job has a Customer

  • Authors: Peter Hartz

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80260-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-80262-1Published: 28 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-80260-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 231

  • Additional Information: Original german edition published by Campus, Frankfurt

  • Topics: Management

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