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Japanese Mangement Techniques Applied to Factories

Much has been written during the 1980s about Japanese management and how the techniques employed by the Japanese have ramifications and applications to management throughout the world. Just-in-time (JIT) inventory management and Total Quality Management (TQM) have both gained popularity in the United States and United Kingdom, as well as other regions, and their roots can be traced to Japan. However, management analysts have been interested in Japanese management techniques for a number of years prior to the recent wave of attention focused on Japanese management, and some researchers were conducting studies on factories in Japan and comparing their management styles to factories in the United Kingdom. This research examines two such works, written ten years apart, which studied Japanese factories and used the findings to consider applications in Britain.

Robert Dore studied four factories, two of the English Electric Company (located in Bradford and Liverpool) and two belonging to the Hitachi company (located in Furusato and Taga). Dore considered the overall factory structure in his study, but compared similar units when examining smaller components of the four factories. For example, when working with job allocation, Dore focused on the washing machine assembly lines at Taga and Liverpool and on the shops producing generators and motors at Bradford and Furusato. As much as possible, the factories were chosen for their similarities which made comparison easier for the researchers (Dore 30).

As in other studies, Dore identifies lifetime employment as a primary difference between factories in Japan and those in Britain. For example, permanent employment at Hitachi meant that employees were, in principle, hired for life, and there was a large difference between the way that permanent employees were treated and the way that temporary employees were perceived both by the company and by their peers. Such distinctions did not ...

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