Have the Seeds of Japanese Teamworking Taken Root Abroad?

Morita, Masaya

doi:10.1111/1468-005x.00087

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“…From a Japanese perspective, Morita (2001) drew attention to similarities between Japanese work units and self-managing work teams, more or less the contemporary hallmark of a good quality of working life, suggesting that both forms differ less than commonly assumed.…”

Section: Quality Of Working Life Under Lpmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lean Production Assessed by Karasek’s Job Demand–Job Control Model

Schouteten¹,

Benders

2004

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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Comments on the quality of working life (QWL) under lean production have varied from devastating criticism on the one hand, to eulogistic praise on the other. These contrasting positions can be related to researchers' opposing societal stances and resulting interpretations, which are reinforced by the methodologies used and the absence of an external framework to judge QWL. Using Karasek's job demand-job control model, the authors investigate a Dutch plant operating under a lean production (LP) regime in an attempt to resolve the controversy. The jobs in this plant can be placed in Karasek's quadrant of low job demands and low job control, which means that antagonists of LP are right in claiming that the work is monotonous and repetitive, while the advocates' claim that workers have sufficient job decision latitude also holds.

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Section: Quality Of Working Life Under Lpmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lean Production Assessed by Karasek’s Job Demand–Job Control Model

Schouteten¹,

Benders

2004

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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“…This aspect of "continuous support" was also noted in Japanese academic research in the 2000s (Kondo, 2004;Morita, 2001;Nakamura, 2007;Nakayama, 2003;Yasumuro & Westney, 2001). Japanese companies tend to concentrate authority, resources, and competencies at their corporate headquarters (Kim, 2013(Kim, , 2015Mukai, 2015;Oki, 2013).…”

Section: From 1990s To 2000smentioning

confidence: 65%

“…written in English. 2 Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun, (2001, September 5), p. 15. 3 Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun, (2006 Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun, (2014, August 7), p. 4.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The History of a Mother Factory

Oki

2016

ABAS

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This study identifies the usage of the term "mother factory" in the Japanese mass media, Japanese academic research, and non-Japanese academic research and analyzes historical changes in the usage of the term. It indicates that initially, all three groups used the term to mean "a unit that continuously supports overseas factories," but over time, the term has taken on additional connotations outside of Japanese academic research.

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“…Moreover, in Japan, teamworking is perceived as a quite natural way of working. It is not a form of work organization designed apart from the workplace, but it is the work practice accomplished by management and workers through their experience in the workplace and their striving for a good work performance (Morita, 2001). For that reason, it did not warrant any special attention for a long time.…”

Section: Teamworkmentioning

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Group work in a Dutch home care organization: does it improve the quality of working life?

Schouteten

2004

Health Planning & Management

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Home care in The Netherlands is facing a trend towards increasing workloads, giving it the image of an unattractive sector to work in. To deal with increasing workloads and their effects, many solutions have been developed, including the concept of team or group work. This paper will address the possibilities, conditions and effects involved in the implementation of group work in home care as a means of improving the quality of working life (QWL) in this sector. To this end I have studied QWL in three jobs in two organizations for home care, one of which implemented group work. This comparison concludes that jobs in the team-based organization are more complete and challenging, bringing more job decision latitude, but also higher work pressure.

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Have the Seeds of Japanese Teamworking Taken Root Abroad?

Cited by 9 publications

References 9 publications

Lean Production Assessed by Karasek’s Job Demand–Job Control Model

Lean Production Assessed by Karasek’s Job Demand–Job Control Model

The History of a Mother Factory

Group work in a Dutch home care organization: does it improve the quality of working life?

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