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Beschouwingen omtrent de management filosofie van Japanse produktiesystemen

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Abstract

Reflections on the management philosophy of Japanese production systems - The global systems approach of the Japanese in their day-to-day production systems struck us most. Furthermore, the Japanese excel in marketing their philosophy. But before implementing anything specific one should scrutinize carefully another Japanese principle :,,Flexibility within Rigidity”, in other words: be flexible and adaptive, but avoid abrupt changes and disruptive reactions. As major recommendations, let us ask ourselves a number of questions: — Can we, Westerners, afford to neglect long term survival strategies ? — Are we psychologically ready to engage in partnership dependencies within the framework of strong intergroup competitiveness ? — Do we pay sufficient attention to creative learning through permanent education and to the development of human resources in order to pursue global social efficiency ? — Are we adequately organized for an outward-oriented management style : high customer service, fast market adaptation, flexible production organization ? — Do we give enough support to first hand, relevant, fast communication and control systems to be able to tackle the real problems ? — Are we flexible enough to integrate harmoniously innovation and the labour-saving new technologies (e.g. : robotics, bureaucratics) in our actual patterns of culture?

How to Cite:

Muller-Malek, H., (1983) “Beschouwingen omtrent de management filosofie van Japanse produktiesystemen”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen 28(3), 219–225. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.94854