The Power of Cleaning: Factors Essential to Great Success in Business

Shin Ohmori ()
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Shin Ohmori: Otemae University

Chapter Chapter 1 in Cleaning and Corporate Management, 2023, pp 3-16 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the first half of this book, I will explore historical accounts of the relationship between cleaning and management. Before introducing that discussion, however, I show in this chapter that from the beginning of modern history, growing companies found it very difficult to compel their employees to work in a disciplined or concerted manner and that it was by gradually introducing cleaning and tidying practices to their expectations of staff that they were able to bring greater discipline to the company as a whole. The act of cleaning has a long history of building discipline, industry, and solidarity in Japanese. This suggests that the “solidarity through activity” gained by sharing specific tasks is more effective for diversified modern companies (including non-Japanese companies) than reliance on a “solidarity of ideals” that is based on specific ideas and theories.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-0761-8_1

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