1980
Chapter 42 in R.M. Barnes, Motion and Time Study, 7 Ed., 1980
1981
Statement of Motorola at Business Management Practices and the Productivity of the American Economy: Hearings Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, May 1 and 11, and June 1 and 5, 1981 (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981 - Government publications - 146 pages). Statement is on Page 134, Very interesting to read
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=2Tzkb59TLGsC&pg=PA134#v=onepage&q&f=false
Excerpts from the statement.
Motorola agrees with many research studies that the major contributors to productivity improvement are people, capital and technology.
The people portion comes from more education, skills and motivation.
The capital portion from more efficient machines, tools and other facilities (Items that produce or provide more per unit time).
The technology portion comes from new materials, product designs, methods and processes that require lesser man hours (machine hours also) to produce a product (process is the movement or motion of machine and man. Method is the arrangement of machines, men and materials in the work station and factory. Thus we have motion study of men and machines and method study that is arrangement or location of machines, tools, materials and men). Motorola is aggressively pursuing all three of these avenues.
We are particularly proud of our corporate-wide program associated with the people-related dimension of productivity improvement. This is our "Participative Management Program" or for brevity "PMP" introduced more than 10 years ago.
1984
Motorola scheme description in page 62
Skills for the Changing Workplace: An Electronics Instructor's Guide
Robert D. Bhaerman, Larry A. Oliver
National Center for Research in Vocational Education, Ohio State University, 1984 - Electronics - 81 pages
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=j5Ii-FDkGrYC&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false
A DISCUSSION OF THE MOTOROLA PARTICIPATIVE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
2nd NASA Symposium on Quality and Productivity
02 December 1987 - 03 December 1987
Washington,DC,U.S.A.
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.1987-3029
1990
DEVELOPING EMPLOYEES
Motorola U: When Training Becomes an Education
by William Wiggenhorn
From the July–August 1990 Issue
William Wiggenhorn is Motorola’s corporate vice president for training and education and the president of Motorola University.
A version of this article appeared in the July–August 1990 issue of Harvard Business Review.
https://hbr.org/1990/07/motorola-u-when-training-becomes-an-education
Motorola: A Tradition of Quality
May 16, 2003
"Quality is a way of life in a business, not an advertising term."-- Robert W. Galvin, President, Motorola Inc., October 1962, Quality Assurance magazine.
Based on a 1986 benchmarking study, that revealed competing with the Japanese required creation of products that were of equal and higher quality, Motorola made efforts to create a breakthrough in quality. It was out of this project that the Six Sigma quality initiative was born in 1987.
In 1988, Motorola was the first large company wide winner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, awarded by the U.S. Congress to recognize and inspire the pursuit of quality in American business. During the period 1987 to 1999, the first twelve years of Six Sigma, Motorola realized significant benefits. By 1999, Motorola had eliminated 99.7% of all in-process defects. The Cost of Poor Quality was reduced by more than 84% on a per unit basis, and cumulative manufacturing cost savings totaled more than $18 billion. At the same time, employee productivity increased dramatically--up 12% annually.
https://www.qualitymag.com/articles/84187-motorola-a-tradition-of-quality
2020
Guy Wallace - My white papers at Motorola 1982
https://eppic.biz/2020/05/20/38-years-ago-my-1st-white-paper-participative-management-of-the-performance-system/
Ud. 11.3.2022
Pub 9.9.2020
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