News Release (December 14, 1973) TESC Students Experience Faculty-Led Tour at Tumwater-Based Brewing Company
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News Release (December 14, 1973) TESC Students Experience Faculty-Led Tour at Tumwater-Based Brewing Company
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14 December 1973
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NEWS
The Evergreen State College
Olympia. Washington
98505
FOR [MMEDIATE RELEASE
December 14, 1973
They've been studying the individual in contemporary society all quarter.
They've been
reading books, discussing theories, examining ways modern man copes with problems of individual freedom and organizational planning in twentieth century America.
But 14 students
from The Evergreen
State College had questions
of work;" about what it's like to work. say. on an assembly
about how labor and management
So Evergreen
about the "real world
line production
unit all day;
really get along.
Faculty Member David Barry led them on a tour of the Olympia Brewing
where they could examine assembly
line production
Company
first hand. talk with Personne1.Manager
Bob Heath. and come up with some answers.
They found out that. for example.
means of varying
the Tumwater
company has been using "an innovative"
routine tasks for more than 40 years.
year company has a low employee
turnover
They found that the $125 million-a-
rate. and that Heath was willing
to answer any and
all of their questions.
Expressing
on the brewery's
interest
management
job srade system employed
The idea, described
employees
in business
as "innovative"
careers,
some of the students
in the bottling
quizzed Heath
plant.
in a recent national
magazine.
calls for rotating
from one routine task to another every hour, rather than having one person do
one routine task for an entire eight-hour
shift.
The system was initiated by the brewery
in 1933.
For nearly
employment
two hours, students discussed
practices,
management
and the history of the Tumwater plant.
to improve the plant and, as a parting question,
a business
management
problems,
Nichols. Director
Infor mation
procedures,
They quizzed Heath on ways
asked, "What's the best preparation
career?"
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"Get a good liberal arts education," Heath answered.
Pleased with their attempts to do just that, students thanked Heath and their company
tour guide, Joe Stamey, and headed back to class.
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