Japanisation

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This paper explains that Japanese management involves a production system where employees are held accountable for their own actions to the same extent that supervisors or managers would be held accountable for the actions of all employees in a more Western or Americanized model. he author points out that the traditional British system promotes harsh and unrelenting, uncommunicative, and uncooperative management styles by upper management. The paper concludes that, even where new industrial practices modeled after the Japanese model of management are said to be in place within the UK, much work still has to be done to improve employee relations and satisfaction within UK corporations.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Japanisation Characterized
History of Japanisation
Case Study
Current Trends
British Industrial Relations
Current U.K. Model of Management
Conclusions

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"Nippon CTV is an example of a Japanese owned factory that is located in the southern portion of England. The factory employs 1,000 people. Recently the factory was the subject of a research study on the shop floor where a majority of the workers are women. There are eight assembly lines operating out of the panel shop, each of which uses an automatic conveyor to carry panels to operators working from their stations (Delbridge, 1997). The assembly teams are run by a team leader, who is responsible for handling any issues which might affect performance including quality control and disciplinary issues."

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