Japanese‐Style Manufacturing Methods and the Process of Organisational Change

Abstract

By the mid‐1990's it is becoming apparent that production techniques such as Just‐in‐Time, Total Quality Management and Continuous Improvement and human resource/industrial relations strategies such as single status and Performance Related Pay, have become increasingly prevalent in the British manufacturing sector. So much so that these expressions have become commonplace within management literature and the diffusion of the techniques within British industry can be described as a ‘mature area’. A move towards these manufacturing methods is due in part to the influence of Japanese establishments operating both in Japan and Britain, (see for example Oliver and Wilkinson, 1992; Mitton and McLoughlin, 1994).

Citation

Mitton, R. (1997), "Japanese‐Style Manufacturing Methods and the Process of Organisational Change", Management Research News, Vol. 20 No. 2/3, pp. 40-41. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb028536