Deployment of American-Style Management and Mass Production Systems: Human Relations, IE, and the Ford System

Toshio Yamazaki
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Toshio Yamazaki: Ritsumeikan University

Chapter Chapter 7 in German Business Management, 2013, pp 115-143 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter discusses the deployment of American-style management and production systems. The major issues are human relations, industrial engineering (IE), and the Ford system. It first considers Japanese characteristics of the American management and production system, and then examines the deployment of human relations, IE, and the Ford system in Germany. This chapter analyzes these issues in relation to German environmental factors such as labor relations, the codetermination system, management values and traditions, and the market structure in Germany and Europe. It reviews the deployment of human relations, in particular the problems of transformation of labor relations and those in the management system. The primary issue was the implementation of the work factor method and Methods Time Measurement (MTM) for the deployment of IE. Finally, this chapter examines the deployment of the Ford system, the rollout of the mass production system, and German manufacturing on the basis of German and European market characteristics.

Keywords: Human relations; Industrial engineering (IE); Management system; Production system; The Ford system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-54303-9_7

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