Tracy L Meerwarth
Biographic Data
| ID | 650910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracy L Meerwarth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracy L |
| FAMILY NAME | Meerwarth |
| SIGNATURE | MEERWARTH T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | General Motors (Poland) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Transforming Culture: Creating and Sustaining a Better Manufacturing Organization
Significant Cultural Transformations in the Automotive Industry
T he manufacturing history of Europe, the United States, and the world is an intertwined flow of cultural transformations. Understanding the broad sweep of those transformations is an excellent way to explore current patterns because any cultural transformation has three elements that define it, explain it, and predict where it will end up. These elements are a history, a present configuration, and future potential. A famous aphorism states, “Tho…
Helping Organizations to See “What Was” and “What Is”
O ne member of our research group, Elizabeth Briody, had the unique experience of conducting anthropological fieldwork in GM manufacturing plants at two different points in time: the mid-1980s (as a sole researcher) and the mid-2000s (as a research-group leader). 1 She did so from the standpoint of an “insider” (a full-time GM researcher) whose job was to design and conduct organizational-culture research. In each case, the research approach was …
Gluesing, Mobile Work, Mobile Lives: Cultural Accounts of Lived Experiences
The Knowledge Organization: Cultural Priorities and Workspace Design
General Motors Research and Development (R&D) management is planning to renovate portions of the Warren, Michigan, research facility. The study's goal was to help organizational leaders and planners understand culturally endorsed workspace architecture and design elements. Researchers used a rapid ethnographic assessment research design grounded in cognitive anthropology and methods to capture impressions and cultural requirements for workspace. …
Conclusion: Patterns of Mobile Work and Life
In this concluding chapter, we articulate four salient patterns that emerge from the contributors' eight narratives about mobile work and life: (1) the performance, presentation, and meaning of work, when activities are interwoven in personal, relational, and work spheres across contexts; (2) the multiplicity in identity and self-presentation; (3) the context and the decontextualization and recontextualization of meaning in changing spaces; and (…
Disentangling Patterns of a Nomadic Life
As a corporate anthropologist who studies how work gets accomplished in the spaces and places workers inhabit, I have become keenly aware of the patterns of behaviors and emotions that arise from my experience as a nomadic worker. The term nomadic comprehends the multiple and geographically distributed sites across a landscape where work gets accomplished. The term suggests a rhythm of movement during which time workers are enabled by technology …
Introduction: Tracking the Context of Mobile Lives
Many employees recognize that they are doing major amounts of professional work away from what might be considered their official workspace. Some knowledge workers are beginning to see a different world for themselves where work and home are allowed to blur and where periods of paid work alternate throughout the day with periods devoted to family and leisure. Because of rapid improvements in technology and changes in the global economy, worker mo…
Discovering the Rules: Folk Knowledge for Improving GM Partnerships
Partnership collaboration, a critical emerging strategy for General Motors (GM) and for organizations in general, is a way to combine resources and complementary expertise to create new knowledge, products, or services. Since partnerships are a relatively new organizational form, our team was commissioned by the head of GM Research and Development (GM R&D) to understand how private-sector research partnerships functioned and how we might offer su…
Disentangling Patterns of a Nomadic Life
As a corporate anthropologist who studies how work gets accomplished in the spaces and places workers inhabit, I have become keenly aware of the patterns of behaviors and emotions that arise from my experience as a nomadic worker. The term nomadic comprehends the multiple and geographically distributed sites across a landscape where work gets accomplished. The term suggests a rhythm of movement during which time workers are enabled by technology …
Discovering the Rules: Folk Knowledge for Improving GM Partnerships
Partnership collaboration, a critical emerging strategy for General Motors (GM) and for organizations in general, is a way to combine resources and complementary expertise to create new knowledge, products, or services. Since partnerships are a relatively new organizational form, our team was commissioned by the head of GM Research and Development (GM R&D) to understand how private-sector research partnerships functioned and how we might offer su…
The Knowledge Organization: Cultural Priorities and Workspace Design
General Motors Research and Development (R&D) management is planning to renovate portions of the Warren, Michigan, research facility. The study's goal was to help organizational leaders and planners understand culturally endorsed workspace architecture and design elements. Researchers used a rapid ethnographic assessment research design grounded in cognitive anthropology and methods to capture impressions and cultural requirements for workspace. …
Conclusion: Patterns of Mobile Work and Life
In this concluding chapter, we articulate four salient patterns that emerge from the contributors' eight narratives about mobile work and life: (1) the performance, presentation, and meaning of work, when activities are interwoven in personal, relational, and work spheres across contexts; (2) the multiplicity in identity and self-presentation; (3) the context and the decontextualization and recontextualization of meaning in changing spaces; and (…
Discovering the Rules: Folk Knowledge for Improving GM Partnerships
Partnership collaboration, a critical emerging strategy for General Motors (GM) and for organizations in general, is a way to combine resources and complementary expertise to create new knowledge, products, or services. Since partnerships are a relatively new organizational form, our team was commissioned by the head of GM Research and Development (GM R&D) to understand how private-sector research partnerships functioned and how we might offer su…
The Knowledge Organization: Cultural Priorities and Workspace Design
General Motors Research and Development (R&D) management is planning to renovate portions of the Warren, Michigan, research facility. The study's goal was to help organizational leaders and planners understand culturally endorsed workspace architecture and design elements. Researchers used a rapid ethnographic assessment research design grounded in cognitive anthropology and methods to capture impressions and cultural requirements for workspace. …
Conclusion: Patterns of Mobile Work and Life
In this concluding chapter, we articulate four salient patterns that emerge from the contributors' eight narratives about mobile work and life: (1) the performance, presentation, and meaning of work, when activities are interwoven in personal, relational, and work spheres across contexts; (2) the multiplicity in identity and self-presentation; (3) the context and the decontextualization and recontextualization of meaning in changing spaces; and (…
Disentangling Patterns of a Nomadic Life
As a corporate anthropologist who studies how work gets accomplished in the spaces and places workers inhabit, I have become keenly aware of the patterns of behaviors and emotions that arise from my experience as a nomadic worker. The term nomadic comprehends the multiple and geographically distributed sites across a landscape where work gets accomplished. The term suggests a rhythm of movement during which time workers are enabled by technology …
Introduction: Tracking the Context of Mobile Lives
Many employees recognize that they are doing major amounts of professional work away from what might be considered their official workspace. Some knowledge workers are beginning to see a different world for themselves where work and home are allowed to blur and where periods of paid work alternate throughout the day with periods devoted to family and leisure. Because of rapid improvements in technology and changes in the global economy, worker mo…
Gluesing, Mobile Work, Mobile Lives: Cultural Accounts of Lived Experiences
Significant Cultural Transformations in the Automotive Industry
T he manufacturing history of Europe, the United States, and the world is an intertwined flow of cultural transformations. Understanding the broad sweep of those transformations is an excellent way to explore current patterns because any cultural transformation has three elements that define it, explain it, and predict where it will end up. These elements are a history, a present configuration, and future potential. A famous aphorism states, “Tho…
Helping Organizations to See “What Was” and “What Is”
O ne member of our research group, Elizabeth Briody, had the unique experience of conducting anthropological fieldwork in GM manufacturing plants at two different points in time: the mid-1980s (as a sole researcher) and the mid-2000s (as a research-group leader). 1 She did so from the standpoint of an “insider” (a full-time GM researcher) whose job was to design and conduct organizational-culture research. In each case, the research approach was …
Transforming Culture: Creating and Sustaining a Better Manufacturing Organization
Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (3 works) · Work (physics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)