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Title: Introduction to Labor Aerospace Research Agenda (LARA)


1
Introduction to Labor Aerospace Research Agenda
(LARA)
  • Sponsors USAF ManTech, US Department of Labor,
    and others
  • Lead Partners IAM and other Labor Organizations
    in Aerospace, LAI Member Organizations
  • Principal investigators and Research Team Joel
    Cutcher-Gershenfeld (Co-PI), Tom Kochan (Co-PI),
    Betty Barrett, Lydia Fraile, Adam Litwin, and
    other team members
  • Links to LAI Organizations and People, Knowledge
    Deployment, Other Research/Product Teams, and
    Curriculum Development
  • Funding 300K/yr
  • Focus
  • Institutional infrastructure and intellectual
    capital investments associated with building the
    21st Century aerospace workforce
  • Impact of instability on employment and workplace
    innovation in the aerospace industry
  • Methods
  • National random sample facility surveys
  • Individual surveys
  • Case studies
  • Collective bargaining contract analysis
  • Archival data analysis
  • Conferences and working sessions

Right Skills, Right Place, Right Time
2
Sample Publications(available at
http//mit.edu/ctpid/lara or at 617.253.5777)
  • Resource Guide
  • Collective Bargaining in the Face of Instability
    A Resource for Workers and Employers in the U.S.
    Aerospace Industry (2000)
  • Case Studies
  • Strategies for Workforce Flexibility and
    Capability (forthcoming)
  • IAM/Boeing, St. Louis
  • Investing in Knowledge, Skills and Capability in
    an Uncertain Business Environment (2003)
  • Rockwell Collins and IBEW
  • A Decade of Learning (2001)
  • International Association of Machinists and
    Boeing Joint Programs
  • Transformation Through Employee Involvement and
    Workplace Training The Challenge of a Changing
    Business Context (2001)
  • Rocketdyne Propulsion and Power and the United
    Automobile Workers
  • Case Studies (cont.)
  • Employing Activity Based Costing and Management
    Practices Within the Aerospace Industry
    Sustaining the Drive for Lean (2000)
  • Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Wichita
    Division and the International Association of
    Machinists
  • Fostering Continuous Improvement in a Changing
    Business Context (2000)
  • Textron Systems
  • From Three to One Integrating a High
    Performance Work Organization Process, Lean
    Production, and Activity Based Costing Change
    Initiatives (2000)
  • Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Wichita
    Division and the International Association of
    Machinists
  • Fostering Workplace Innovation and
    Labor-Management Partnership The Challenge of
    Strategic Shifts in Business Operations (1999)
  • Pratt and Whitney (UTC) and the International
    Association of Machinists

3
Additional Research Output
  • Books and Monographs
  • LARA Research is incorporated into Lean
    Enterprise Value Insights from MITs Lean
    Aerospace Initiative (Palgrave, 2002)
  • Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel, Betty Barrett, Eric
    Rebintisch, Thomas Kochan, and Robert Scott,
    Developing a 21st Century Aerospace Workforce.
    Policy White Paper submitted to Human
    Capital/Workforce Task Force, The U.S. Commission
    on the Future of the Aerospace Industry (2002).
  • Scholarly Articles
  • Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Lean Transformation
    Across the U.S. Aerospace Industry Exploring
    the Interdependence of Social and Technical
    Systems (working paper, 2003)
  • Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld and Eric Rebentisch,
    The Impact of Instability on Complex Social and
    Technical Systems, (Proceedings from MIT
    Engineering Systems Division Internal Symposium,
    2002)
  • Practitioner-Oriented Articles (all in IRRA
    Perspectives, 2003)
  • Instability in the Aerospace Industry A Core
    Strategic Challenge, by Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
  • Counting the Global Aerospace Workforce
    Preliminary Findings, by Betty Barrett, Kevin
    Long, Lydia Fraile, and Adam Litwin
  • Labor in Aerospace The Business Perspective, by
    A. Bryan Davis
  • Losing Altitude Employment in the U.S. Aerospace
    Sector, by Steve Sleigh, Paul E. Almeida, Faraz
    Kahn
  • Out of the Ashes Options for Rebuilding Airline
    Labor Relations, by Thomas Kochan, Andrew von
    Nordenflycht, Robert McKersie, and Jody Hoffer
    Gittell
  • Recent Conference Presentations
  • Workforce Flexibility Session, International
    Industrial Relations Association, 2003
  • Panel Presentations, Industrial Relations
    Research Association, 2003 and 2004 National
    Meetings
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