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Re: [Phys-l] Cramster et al.



This management technique is known as Total Quality Management (TQM). The US taught it to the Japanese after WWII in order to rebuild their economy. They learned it well. WE never bothered with it. Empowering the worker has never been a big aim of US management.


At 8:02 PM -0500 5/13/10, Brian Whatcott wrote:
John Clement wrote:

The Japanese
> have an extremely strong cooperative society, and took over American ideas
of both education and economic production. They implemented them very
successfully and essentially drove our auto makers into the ground.
Hmmm...encouraging an industrial environment where Japanese line workers
are encouraged to make product improvements, and are required to attempt
to resolve production line quality issues in the available walk time, or
else stop the line, makes a stark contrast with the ethos at some other
US car plants where parts were placed in door panels expressly to annoy
the new owner and where stopping the line was effectively a firing
offense. This is not cooperation: it is management (for the long term)