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Sidney Harman is the chairman of Harman International, maker of high-tech, high-quality audio systems with 1.4 billion dollars in annual sales. For the 90s, Harman is a maverick CEO, who promotes long-term connections with his employees, rails against temps and layoffs, and has just built his newest plant in the U.S., and not in a low-wage area overseas. Harman International’s track record is a testament to his success. The company’s JBL and Infinity Audio Systems are world-class, and world-known. To keep workers a top priority of his managers, Harman insists that all executives spend time working on the production line every month. Harman also keeps regular employees on the payroll, even when they’re not strictly needed for production, in a program he calls OLE (Off Line Enterprises). In OLE, regular workers are assigned to jobs that normally would be outsourced. (30 minutes)

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Copyright date: ©1998

Part of the Series : Managing Corporate Change

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