Japanese Management Practices

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Japanese Management Practices
By Missey Printz Melissa Ryan Matt Peterson
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They work together rather than having different
levels of management. Japanese companies are more
successful than American companies because they
care more about their employees
participation. Rather than telling their
employees what to do, they want their input on
company decisions. Japanese business practices,
such has Honda, have been exported to the United
States. In Hondas plant in Ohio, they can
produce one car every minute with 5,500 workers.
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Deming's 14 Points
1. Create constancy of purpose towards improvement
2. Adopt the new philosophy
Demings 14 points helped Japanese become one of
the most successful economies in the world.
3. Cease dependence on inspection
7. Institute leadership
4. Move towards a single supplier for any one
item.
6. Institute training on the job.
5. Improve constantly and forever.
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8. Drive out fear.
12. Remove barriers to pride of workmanship.
9. Break down barriers between departments.
13. Institute education and self-improvement.
10. Eliminate slogans.
14. The transformation is everyones job.
Edward Deming
11. Eliminate management by objectives.
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Japanese Management
Across 2. What helped Japan's businesses be so
successful? 4. One of the companies from Japan
with branches in the United States
Down 1. Japanese companies would rather work
________ than having different levels of
management 2. Who wrote the 14 points for
management? 3. Where Honda's plant is located
where they can produce one car every minute with
the 5,500 workers.
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Quiz

• Who wrote the fourteen points that helped
  Japanese businesses succeed?
• How are the management systems in Japan
  different from those in the United States?

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Answers

• Edward Deming wrote the 14 points.
• Japanese businesses want total input from their
  employees and need their participation to succeed
  whereas U.S. management takes initiative to do
  things for the company without the rest of the
  employees opinions.