The Department of Sociology is pleased to present
DR. PETER WARRIAN
THE CHANGING SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE STEEL INDUSTRY
Thursday, November 24, 2011
1:00 p.m.
Togo Salmon Hall 719
ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND!!
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Dr. Peter Warrian
Senior Research Fellow, Munk School for Global Affairs, University of Torontoa former Research Director of the United Steelworkers of America and Chief Economist of the Province of Ontario.
The famous business historian Alfred Chandler (1962) observed that steel was the only major industry not to have adapted the multi-divisional (M) model for the modern corporation. Steel retained a unitary, hierarchical structure of authority, skill and knowledge flows. It meant that steel companies only learned what their engineers learned. The ownership change in recent years means that Canadian steel management must now adapt to new global steel HR norms, best practices and knowledge flows.
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