Japanese have mastered workplace management and I am giving below a summary of the book “Workplace Management” by the Japanese author Mr. Taichi Ohame:
* If you are a leader of a team then you should know how to adapt, have self confidence and should not fear change and should be able to persuade your team members to your way of thought.
* Accept mistakes and do not be under false illusions. Something might not be what it appears to be, unless put to test.
* Look for a better way of doing things and have an open mind in accepting new ideas or suggestions for improvement.
* Put new ideas to test and confirm success or failure.
* Make drastic changes in the way you think to avoid obsolescence.
* Do not be afraid of lost opportunities but figure out real losses.
* Apply limited volume management in terms of productivity and labor, as a means of making things inexpensive.
* Avoid making things that you cannot sell.
* Mass production is always not cheaper and sometimes raises costs.
* Do not talk about past success but concentrate on future improvement.
* Improve storage technology and inventory management.
* You can cut production and at the same time raise productivity by stopping some machines and making some other machines more productive.
* Rationalize operations when business is booming.
* Lower costs by eliminating "muda" (waste)
* Follow “Just in Time " and have things ready when needed.
* Follow the supermarket system and fewer people should run the operations efficiently.
* Shut down production when the parts are defective. There is no point in producing defective items.
* Produce what is necessary and just in time.
* Always praise people in public and fire in private.
* Keep the workplace orderly, clean and maintain discipline.
To maintain high degree of efficiency follow the priorities as given below:
* Operational Improvement- first * Equipment Improvement - second * Process Improvement - third Bulk of the above advice is basic common sense, which is most uncommon. One need not be an ivy league MBA to know the above.
When I read the title of Mr. Tim Knox’s latest book that ‘Everything I know about business I learned from my Mama’, I couldn’t agree less. My late mother, a not formally educated lady, taught me 5W’s and 1 H principle. It stands for What, Who, Where, When, Why and How. Later I came to know Mr. Rudyard Kipling said the same thing. There is nothing in the world that cannot be learnt, if you follow the above principle.
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